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Picture this: you are sitting on your front porch overlooking your 200-acre farm on a warm June evening.  The cotton-candy sky is beautiful, the kids are playing in the yard, and the lightning bugs are starting to speckle the field in front of you.  What is on your mind – layered cake?  A bundle of sticks?  Probably not, but you may be surprised to hear you are sitting on both!   Right this minute, you are sitting on a layered cake, and if you have rented or owned property,

As volunteers for your community Association, or not-for-profit organization, the Board members devote countless hours of their free to handling Association issues and ensure the Association runs properly.  Not only are board members charged with choosing vendors and ensuring that the common elements are maintained, but they are required to keep proper corporate records, which include meeting minutes for any board meeting or association meeting.   Some common questions we r

Did you know there are different types of deeds?  And the type of deed you grant to someone affects your obligations to him in the future?  And the type of deed you receive as a grantee dictates what you actually receive in the deed?  Depending on the type of deed you hold for your property, the prior owner may or may not have made you promises regarding the title to your property – including whether he actually even owned it when he deeded it to you.  If you have an issue wi