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Common Real Estate Legal Issues in NJ: What You Need to Know

Navigating the New Jersey real estate market is often challenging due to the legal complexities that often arise during transactions. Some of the most common issues include title disputes, property liens, zoning restrictions, and disclosure failures. Each of these can bring transactions to a halt, creating significant financial and legal headaches for both buyers and sellers. Gruber, Colabella, Thompson, Hiben & Montella (GCTH&M) has specialized for over 40 years in a range of NJ real estate processes from residential home purchases and sales to more complex commercial and business transactions. Title Disputes and Liens A title dispute occurs when the ownership...

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Beware of Solicitation Scam to Buy the Deed to Your House

Filed Paper Documents

By: Chris H. Colabella, Esq.

Beware of solicitations for the retrieval of your Deed, Mortgage or other filed documents. It has become more common for companies throughout the United States to solicit new home buyers and individuals who have recently transferred the Deeds on their property to utilize their services for the retrieval of the documents.

Rent Payments to a Landlord: Better Late Than Never?

Lease Agreement

By: Racquel G. Hiben, Esq.

As a landlord, you have an expectation that the tenant will pay their rent on time. Often times it is imperative that the tenant do so in order for you, as owner of the rental, to pay the mortgage and/or taxes on that property.

What can you do if your tenant continuously pays their rent after the due date? Can you evict them for violation of the lease terms? The answer is yes.

Say Goodbye to New Jersey Estate Tax

House and Money

New Jersey is one of only two states that collect both an inheritance tax and estate tax at the time of the transfer of assets upon an individual’s passing. However, on October 14, 2016, Governor Christie signed a bill increasing the exemption amount for payment of estate tax for one year and thereafter, for a total elimination of the estate tax.

Overstaying Your Welcome: An Episode of NJ Eviction Law

Eviction Notice

A Hoboken woman is probably having a good week, after finally getting the go-ahead from the NJ Supreme Court to evict tenants of a converted garage she was renting and move in herself. The unanimous court ruling determined that even a liberal reading of New Jersey State’s renter-friendly Anti-Evictiona Act still allows Cashin to expel the current tenants, Marisela Bello and her son, Martino Bello.