If you really want to get this all right, you need to find a knowledgeable lawyer.

I used to swap out cylinders between rentals but then got really paranoid about how an aggressive lawyer could twist that into my negligence if a criminal entered the property with an old key.Now I spend $8 a cylinder to have it rekeyed to a totally new key and throw out the old keys.

It's just preference, and what you feel is most effective for you.

This demonstrates that he is not representing your interests and my lawyer wrote him a letter of termination.

I think the secret lies in Having your buyer use the right lender and the right lawyer.

Anyone have any experience on residential property values when a park is put in? There's a neighborhood in my area that just got the ok for a new (and quite large) park where there was a rundown block of old buildings...

The Motley Fool, for example, is a free site--the largest on the Internet--effectively moderated, by the way, that tried to charge for board participation.

The loans on a property have absolutely NO effect on the profit from the sale.

I'm a full-time real estate lawyer, an every-now-and-then real estate agent, an ex-appraiser and a newbie at online social networking.

Do I need to have a lawyer a part of this transaction to make sure everything goes smoothly, or is it not important?