Enhancing Real EstateReal estate interests may be enhanced by subdivision, permitting, surveying or construction, or by adopting, modifying or eliminating a right-of-way, other easement, or real estate covenants, conditions or restrictions, or shared use agreements for driveways and the like. If so, you've come to the right place. I've broad experience in these areas. Click on a tab below, or contact me, to learn how I can help you enhance your real estate interests.
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If you're considering the subdivision of real estate (i.e., of breaking an existing parcel into two or more smaller ones), you'll need at least a state permit approving the subdivision. To get one of those, you'll need a survey. You'll also want to simultaneously think about whether, as subdivided, the smaller parcels will have access to water and wastewater permits because, without such access, little if anything can be done with respect to the parcels, in terms of structures, and that would mean the parcels would have little market value. My experience enables me to help clients like you navigate the subdivision and related permitting process efficiently and cost effectively. Contact me to learn more about how I can help.
Subdividing requires permits, but there are many other instances where new or amended permits are reuired. For instance, building, zoning and/or water/wastewater permits may be required if you change how you use your real estate, build a new structure, modify an existing structure, install or modify a water supply (e.g., spring or well) or wastewater system (e.g., septic tank, leachfield) or cause your real estate to increase its likely water use. I've great experience helping clients prepare and obtain necessary permits, and, as needed, litigating to get them.
You'll be required to survey your real estate if you seek to subdivide it. But there are other reasons why surveying your real estate may be a good idea, financially, particularly if you have a large parcel or live outside a developed municipality, or if you have any doubts about your boundaries. I've reviewed hundreds and hundreds of surveys over thirty plus years, and can help you realize the benefits of a good one.
The value of your real estate will depend on, among other things, whether it has access to a public road, utilities, water and wastewater, and that's routinely predicated on there being necessary rights-of-way or other easements. Or, for sound reasons, you may wish to grant neighbors such rights. I've evaluated thousands of rights-of-way and other easements over thirty years, and I can help you get sound ones.
Your real estate's use and value may be substantially influenced by the existence (or not) of appropriate covenants, conditions, restrictions and other agreements. Is or should your real estate be subject to restrictions about what use you may make of it? About what structures may be constructed, and where, when and how? Or are there or should there be such restrictions on what your neighbors may do with theirs? Or do you need or need to improve agreements governing how you and one or more neighbors use common items, like driveways or common areas? I've decades of experience in helping clients just like you creatively and cost-effectively solve problems like this.