Matters
When the dispute is about the building you own
A home or a condo unit is usually the largest thing a person owns. Disputes over it are slow and personal.
Caspian acts for owners against associations, neighbors, contractors and sellers, and sometimes for a small association or landlord answering a claim. The work starts with the documents: the declaration, the deed, the survey, the contract.
Many of these disputes are resolved in negotiation or mediation, and a lawsuit is the way to make that talk serious.
Assessments and association rules
Boundaries, easements and encroachment
Defects found after closing
What the work covers
Owners, neighbors and the people they paid
Association disputes
Special assessments, selective enforcement, records an association will not produce.
Boundaries and easements
A fence on the wrong side, a driveway someone else uses, a survey that disagrees.
Construction defects
Work that failed after closing or after a renovation was paid for.
Seller and buyer disputes
What was disclosed, what was not, and what the contract promised.
Contractor disputes
An unfinished job, a lien, or a bill the owner disputes.
Neighbor disputes
Trees, water, noise and shared walls, after a conversation has failed.
Sample matters
Property outcomes, in plain terms
Repaired
Water intrusion in a condo unit
The association agreed to repair the common wall and reimburse the owner.
Sample
$18,000
Unfinished renovation
A homeowner recovered part of a deposit, less fees.
Sample
Sample matters, written to show how results are reported. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome: every case turns on its own facts and law.
On property and condo cases
Can I sue my condo association?
In some situations, yes. The association's own documents and the law on associations decide what you can ask for, and many disputes begin with a written demand and a records request.
What if the dispute is with a neighbor?
A conversation, then a letter, then mediation, then suit. Caspian will tell you whether the dispute justifies the cost of the last step.
Do you also represent associations?
Occasionally, in a defined dispute. Say so in your summary, and the first conversation covers whether there is a conflict.
Have a dispute over the place you own?
Send the documents you have and a line about what changed.