Reporting that starts where the advice runs out.
Drawer 1: 12 cards filed in this section
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 4 min |
When the company on the invoice is large, the contract chain behind the person on site usually decides whether an attorney is necessary or merely expensive.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 4 min |
A first-year homeowner's guide to the paperwork, timing and order that decide whether a complaint moves up the ladder or stalls at the first person who answers.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 5 min |
A leaking second-floor bathroom, three companies pointing at each other, and the week-to-week work that decided whether the first legal meeting cost one hour or five.
| Author | Tomasz Zielinski |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 4 min |
Ten years ago most legal work was quoted against the hour and nothing else. The units have changed, and so has what you can settle from another city.
| Author | Tomasz Zielinski |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 4 min |
Remote hearings, e-filing and unbundled representation changed what legal help costs an out-of-town owner, and which problems still need a lawyer at all.
| Author | Tomasz Zielinski |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 4 min |
A fee quote is only as good as the thing it is measured against, and for an owner working by phone from out of state, five items decide whether the number holds.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 6 min |
Why the file that wins a contractor dispute now runs on subcontract chains, written approvals and timestamps rather than the twenty photos you took of the damage.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 4 min |
When a firm quotes you a number, it is pricing a defined set of steps and a set of assumptions about the other side, not the outcome you came in wanting.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
|---|---|
| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 5 min |
A bathroom remodel failed eleven months after signoff, and the file that settled it looked nothing like the file the same dispute would have produced a decade earlier.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
|---|---|
| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 5 min |
When two lawyers quote wildly different numbers for the same first-year homeowner dispute, they are usually pricing two different scopes, and the paperwork shows which.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 5 min |
First legal meetings got shorter because the fact-gathering moved forward onto forms and staff. Here is who handles each stage, how long it takes, and what to send ahead.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
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| Section | Law & Legal |
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| Reading | 5 min |
Most first-time homeowners think settling means your case was weak. The timing, the release language and the cost curve say otherwise.