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Real Estate: Negotiations, Contracts, Sales and Management

With over 38 years of experience as an attorney, 24 in her own firm, Victoria Smith specializes in representing individuals, families, and small businesses in buying, selling, leasing, and managing real estate.  We are an Orinda, California Law Firm that works with clients to:

 

 

  • Prepare real estate purchase contracts
  • Open, manage and complete escrows
  • Identify and resolve title issues
  • Prepare easements, land use agreements, and licenses
  • Advise buyers, sellers and real estate licensees in sales transactions
  • Prepare agreements for the joint ownership and management of real property
  • Resolve escrow issues
  • Prepare leases
  • Handle all landlord/tenant issues
  • Represent Homeowners Associations
  • Enforce leases, including commercial and residential evictions
  • Resolve contract disputes
  • Resolve neighborhood disputes involving easements and boundary lines
  • Resolve issues concerning disclosures and the sale and purchase of real estate
  • Resolve mechanic’s lien claims
  • Handle title insurance claims
  • Prepare real estate loan documentation

Whether you need help in preparing a lease for your rental home or office building, responding to the claim of a neighbor concerning an easement or title to your property, drafting, reviewing or simply understanding a real estate contract, preparing real estate loan documentation, or collecting a secured debt that someone owes to you, we can assist you.  Our goal is the same as yours: a cost-effective and timely solution to your real estate questions and needs. Solving your problem is our priority. With over 35 years of experience in the Lamorinda community, and practicing throughout Northern California, Victoria Smith has the experience to meet your legal needs.

  • Joint Ownership of Property
  • Buying Real Estate
  • Selling Real Estate
  • Commercial Leases
  • Residential Landlords
  • Title and Escrow Issues
  • Contracts

Our Goal

From her office in Orinda, CA, Victoria Smith represents clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in buying and selling real estate, leasing and managing their tenants, title and real estate disputes, and secured debt collection. Victoria finds cost-effective and focused solutions to her client’s problems.

Meeting Client Needs

Victoria represents clients ranging from institutions to everyday families trying to protect their real estate investments. Victoria’s clients include professional fiduciaries, mom and pop real estate investors, lenders, homeowners, insurance companies, and commercial property owners. In each case, Victoria understands that clients need to be kept informed about their matters and want responsive services. We provide clients with copies of all relevant documents and keep in touch promptly via phone, fax, and email.

Putting Experience to Work for Clients

With 38 years of experience practicing law in the Bay Area, Victoria specializes in Real Estate Law.  Victoria can offer her clients the knowledge and experience that she has developed in her real estate law career, including her understanding of the needs of clients as they relate to:

  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Transactions, including Contract, Title and Escrow Issues
  • The Joint Ownership, Management and Disposition of Real Property
  • All aspects of Landlord/Tenant Relationships, including Leases, Disputes and Unlawful Detainer for residential and commercial properties
  • Real Estate Disclosures and Due Diligence
  • Mechanic’s Lien Claims
  • Resolving Neighborhood Real Property Disputes
  • Transfer of Business Interests

Victoria Smith offers a free telephone consultation regarding real estate, real estate transactions, neighborhood issues, business sales, and other contract issues.