Real Estate

I work well with small to mid-size businesses and individuals. Though every matter will be considered, as a general policy I usually do not take cases where the client has suffered no measurable damage, or cases that are "based on the principle of the matter."

I prefer plaintiff litigation to defense, but take on a fair amount of both.

• Architectural & Engineering
• Broker & Transaction Litigation
• Building Codes
• Condemnation
• Construction Contracts
• Construction Defects
• Conveyancing
• Eminent Domain
• Land Contracts
• Land Use & Zoning
• Mechanics' Liens
• Property Taxes
• Renting & Leasing
• Title Litigation
• Landlord
• Tenant
• Tenants' Rights

• Building Codes
• Buying & Selling
• Condemnation
• Construction Contracts
• Construction Defects
• Conveyancing
• Eminent Domain
• Land Contracts
• Land Use & Zoning
• Mechanics' Liens
• Property Taxes
• Renting & Leasing
• Title Litigation
• Landlord
• Tenant

AZ, Oct 2006
Bar Number: 024706

Arizona State 2006; Federal District of Arizona 2006.

East Valley Bar Association; Navajo County Bar Association; Arizona State Bar Association.

I attend continuing legal education seminars on the topics of Real Estate Law, Litigation, Ethics, Employment Law, and Family Law. I generally exceed the required amount of continuing legal education hours.

As a law student, I drafted three sections of the "Couch on Insurance (4th)" legal treatise relating to the "completed operations" clauses and how they relate to damages.

I have brought over 50 cases to foreclose the right to redeem tax liens on real estate/property. Tax lien foreclosures, being creatures of Arizona statute, require an in-depth understanding of current Arizona law and court decisions. Typically, the client either becomes the titled owner of the disputed properties, or recovers their investment with interest and gets a judgment for attorney's fees and costs.

I regularly bring "quiet title" actions where the extent or title to property is disputed. These actions must be brought in Superior Court and typically involve releasing or purging liens/clouds on title so that the property is marketable.

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Arizona

Holland Law Firm is a small law firm focusing on Real Estate and Contract disputes and Employment Law.

After doing free-lance legal research and clerking for several Arizona law firms, and with the support of his father, two brothers, and a brother-in-law (all practicing attorneys in Arizona), Joseph Holland established Holland Law Firm PLLC right out of law school. In 2007, with the move of his family to Snowflake, Arizona, Holland Law Firm closed its doors in the greater Phoenix area and opened its doors at its current location: 970 S. Main St; Ste D in Snowflake, AZ 85937. Snowflake is centrally located (just 15 minutes North of the Show Low metropolitan area, and about 30-35 minutes from both the Navajo County Superior Court in Holbrook, AZ and the Apache County Superior Court in St. Johns, AZ). The firm has catered largely to real estate disputes, contract drafting and litigation, and employment law disputes, though it occasionally takes clients with a myriad of legal issues and concerns.

As a teenager, I started working with my father in his firm and gained a basic understanding of the legal profession. After graduating from ASU with a business management degree in 2002, I began working in a corporate office in Human Resources where I handled employment complaints, benefits training, and injury and sexual harassment issues. Throughout my law school career, worked with attorneys in all areas of practice, starting as a free-lance legal researcher (fielding legal issues that had stumped other attorneys) and ending as a law clerk carrying my own case load in insurance subrogation and product defect litigation. As an attorney, I have handled cases in virtually every area of law: from bankruptcy to personal injury to litigating franchising agreements and drafting boat rental forms. Eventually, I settled into [mostly] property law, including quiet title actions, easement disputes, tax lien foreclosures, and landlord tenant/forcible detainers.

Student Author in the "Couch on Insurance (4th)" re-write project.

(866) 832-6984

Monday
10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday through Thursday
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Friday
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

No

Yes, Portuguese.

Tax Lien Foreclosure:
$2,000 + costs

Forcible Detainers (non-contested): $450 + costs

The problem with fixed rates on civil litigation matters involving real estate is that the amount of work required is often contingent upon the adversary, and what kind of fight they are willing to put forth. This is necessarily a case-by-case determination.

Between $175-$195.

Initial Consultation Fee: $85 for the first 40 minutes.

I generally require 10 billable hours worth of work to be placed in a trust account. Monthly billings, detailing dates and extent of work performed are provided to the client prior to funds being deducted from the trust account and the client is responsible to reimburse the amount withdrawn each month (keeping me from having to chase down clients to pay their bills). At the termination of the attorney-client relationship, whatever money is in the trust account belongs to the client—I cut a check for the remainder to the client.