They have the duty to defend against this kind of legal claim as part of your homeowner's/landlord's insurance.

An agents E &O insurance protects and defends the agent not the consumer.

If someone from NC follows the advice from posters above, when the applicant that backed out says "I want him to give me my money back" in front of a judge, the judge will look at the landlord DEFENDANT and say "give him the money back."

He tells me that one county over it can get crazy in court.For instance, one particular magistrate makes him spend tweny minutes proving his case, grills him pretty intensively, and requires that he produce every piece of paper that might be remotely relevant.Worse yet, even if the defendant does NOT show up, the magistrate still makes the LL exhaustively prove his case and jump through the same hoops.Maybe I'm spoiled because locally I've never faced that kind of nonsense.But here's my question: is that type of goofiness the norm or the exception to the rule?

Guess law school didn't teach him HOW to cover up the crime just how to defend someone.

Is there a case where the following occurred, in which the IRS has claimed a victory for the defendant under the following:-High W-2 income earner invests in short term rentals-taxpayer is not a real estate professional -offers rental for less than 7 days on average-materially participates and more hours than anyone else etc etc (100 hours and so forth)-files it on schedule E as passive and does not offer substantial services to be classified as schedule C - cost segs a million dollar purchase for 200k and deducts from W-2 income to owe no taxes There are a ton of moving pieces with this, and the more complicated something is with the IRS the worse it is for the taxpayer when dealing with an audit.

One may see me as protecting my own self-interest trying to defend the position of a program/product that puts food on my family's table.

Everyone, witnesses and defendants, were ILLEGAL and spoke NO ENGLISH.

But rather than repair the stove, I would purchase a used appliance for that same amount or less.You have to consider life expectations, actual remaining life, and what you are comfortable defending in front of a judge if the tenant ever pushes back.

Aloha,If you countersigned before reviewing the final document, it could be very difficult to defend.