by Brian Huddleston | Mar 19, 2018 | Legislation & Case Notes, Real Estate Law
You have just noticed that your neighbor?s front door camera directly faces your door and/or window. With the new motion sensitive video surveillance systems and online cloud storage of all video, you are recorded every time you open the door. Maybe this makes you...
by Brian Huddleston | Mar 19, 2018 | Real Estate Law
If you are getting a home loan, you will always have to purchase a lender’s policy of title insurance. Even when you have a choice, I always recommend that everyone buying a home get an owner?s title insurance policy. For a low, one-time cost, you get an...
by Brian Huddleston | Jan 9, 2018 | Legislation & Case Notes, Real Estate Law
It may be tempting for a farming operation with fallow acreage to consider leasing to a tenant for above-market rents. However, when the offer is coming from a marijuana grower, the would-be landlord will have a number of additional legal issues to consider. It bears...
by Brian Huddleston | Jan 4, 2018 | Legislation & Case Notes, Real Estate Law
OKLAHOMA CITY ? Governor Mary Fallin today set a June election date for the medical marijuana ballot measure. Fallin filed an executive proclamation placing State Question 788 on the June 26 primary election ballot. The governor?s other option was to place the issue...
by Brian Huddleston | Dec 24, 2017 | Legislation & Case Notes, Real Estate Law
As Oklahoma citizens consider State Question 788, landlords and property managers need to know how to address medical marijuana use in their buildings. The supremacy clause in the U.S. Constitution says that states must not (and cannot) enact laws that conflict with...
by Brian Huddleston | Sep 25, 2017 | Real Estate Law
In the unfortunate event you have to move forward with an eviction, you will likely want to evict your non-paying or nuisance tenant(s) just as quickly as the law allows. When you have tenants in your properties that aren’t paying or are in violation of their...