Real Estate and Land Use Issues
Our lawyers have a broad range of experience in San Juan County real estate and land use issues. We are experienced with real estate litigation, real estate transactions, and land use matters. We have a proven record of success before San Juan County and Town of Friday Harbor departments and officials, the San Juan County Hearing Examiner, and Washington State courts in real estate, land use, and related litigation.
Development Proposals and Opposition. For clients with development proposals, our San Juan County lawyers shepherd the application through the permitting process and the complex array of state and local laws and regulations. Our attorneys are familiar with the laws and regulations of both San Juan County and Friday Harbor. Although our clients' projects may face strong opposition, our attorneys have an excellent record of success. We have assisted clients with a wide variety of real estate proposals.
Where development applications filed by others would have an adverse impact upon our clients, our attorneys also have successfully opposed a wide variety of development applications.
Real Estate Litigation. We have handled many different kinds of real estate litigation, including:
- Durable powers of attorney for financial purposes
- Adverse possession, boundary line disputes, prescriptive easements, and various types of easement-related disputes
- Land use litigation before the San Juan County Hearing Examiner
- Land use litigation in San Juan County Superior Court
- Partition actions to divide jointly owned real estate
- Unlawful detainer actions and other residential landlord-tenant disputes
- Commercial lease disputes
- Homeowners' association disputes
- Lawsuits requesting quiet title
- Lien foreclosures
Real Estate Transactions. Our attorneys provide our clients with in-depth assistance on San Juan County real estate transactions, whether on San Juan Island, Lopez Island, Orcas Island, Shaw Island, Decatur Island, and other San Juan County islands. Our lawyers advise our clients on the legal issues that often arise in real estate transactions. Whether you need an attorney to review a preliminary title commitment, draft a customized purchase and sale agreement or addenda, assist with structuring a complex private financing transaction, and or need advice on a real estate purchase or sale, our San Juan County lawyers can provide knowledgeable assistance tailored to your individual needs.