Perhaps more than any other state, Arizona is rife with homes that are located within communities governed by homeowners or community associations. There are a lot of advantages and also some disadvantages to purchasing an investment property within a community...
Arizonans love to do things the old-fashioned way. If I had a dollar for every time a client explains a deal to me by saying something to the effect of, “Well, we shook on it, so it was official,” I would be a moderately wealthy man. Verbal agreements have their place...
As an estate planning lawyer, I have the benefit of talking with hundreds of people about their hopes for the future, especially their children’s futures. In all of those conversations, I have never had a single person say, “Boy, I really hope my hard-earned assets...
BY: SAM RICHARDSON, ESQ. One of the issues that just won’t seem to go away is the notion that the government can prevent landlords from evicting tenants by claiming that the COVID pandemic created an emergency scenario in which the tenant’s rights to the property...
Phocus Law attorneys Mick McGirr and Michele Leonelli presented to CO+HOOTS on a topic that is important for all business owners: contracts. We cover a variety of contract types, including operating agreements, employment agreements, non-disclosure agreements,...
This article was originally published in the August, 2021 AZREIA (Arizona Real Estate Investors Association) Newsletter, available here. By: Michael J. “Mick” McGirr, Esq. Whether you are the party seeking financing for a deal or you are the party with some cash and...
