When the seller is an estate… Yesterday I closed a listing of mine in Jamesburg that was an estate sale. That is, the legal owner of the property had died and the house was part of his estate. The executrix of the estate, who was effectively my client, was the owner’s sister. I once read […]
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The HUD, the RESPA–by any other name, the settlement statement My long-delayed Jamesburg listing is finally closing this Friday, so I just sent my seller a blank HUD to get her acquainted with the form. She will of course get the final HUD form at closing from her buyer’s attorney. What we call “the HUD” […]
when is a closing date not a closing date? It used to be that once a transaction had survived attorney review, after buyers had completed their inspections and parties had agreed how to handle any inspection issues, and assuming the house appraised at or above the contract price, you could pretty much count on a […]
