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Who Should Be Involved When Negotiating An Agreement?
In the corporate world, the person in charge of negotiations is often, by default, a department leader, the person in charge of the project, the CEO, or the business owner. Yet, there is no guarantee that they are most skilled in negotiation. Have you ever gone to buy...
Is A Negotiation Necessary?
The Harvard Law School Program On Negotiation describes a negotiation as a process of finding your counterparts’ interests and reconciling them with your own to achieve a specific outcome. Negotiated agreements happen through back-and-forth communication to reach a...
How Do I Negotiate Business Agreements
In the course of your career, you are likely to perform many duties that were not explicit in the job description at the time of hire. If you are an entrepreneur, you are probably quite familiar with the concept of wearing many hats in your business. Negotiations...
What is a Legal Agreement?
The Legal Information Institute of Cornell University defines an agreement as a manifestation of mutual assent by two or more persons to one another. It is a meeting of the minds with a common intention, and it is achieved through offer and acceptance. Commonly...
Costs of Eviction
An eviction process has direct and indirect costs. Direct costs include court and law enforcement fees. Indirect costs include the loss of income from unpaid rent and the inability to rent the property to paying tenants. Human Cost In addition to the financial cost,...
Law Enforcement Support for Eviction Removals
Once a final court order of eviction is secured and served, the tenant is given a specific number of days to vacate the property. In some cases, the tenant may still refuse to vacate. In these cases, the landlord must hire a law enforcement officer to remove the...
Steps in an Eviction
Most laws and regulations governing the landlord-tenant relationship exist at the state and local levels. When it comes to evictions, the process can vary between court jurisdictions. If you need to remove a tenant, be sure to research your local procedures. It may...
How Does Eviction Work?
The dictionary defines eviction as “the action of expelling someone, especially a tenant, from a property.” For a landlord, the eviction process can seem overwhelming, and while many landlords would prefer to find a resolution to a tenant issue, there are times when...
What Happens Where There Is A Landlord-Tenant Dispute?
Many rental relationships are smooth, true win-win situations with no disputes. The tenant enjoys a safe place to live with a responsive landlord, and the landlord receives timely and full payments from a tenant that treats the property with respect. However,...
Landlord Rights
Landlord rights tend to focus on receipt of timely and complete payments, access to the property, property conditions, protection from criminal activity, and eviction. Regulations Regulations around landlord access to rented property vary state to state. Be sure you...