All Forum Posts by: Ethan G.

Your title company may be the best place for some of those.   In my experience if you are using the promulgated Texas transaction forms or TAA lease they will do for free or for a very reasonable fee.   I typically would only recommend you use a board certified real estate attorney to review.  I'm sure there are other good attorney's out there, but someone who looks at these forms every day will keep it simple and straight forward.  Time is often your enemy with reviews, so you also need to be able to do it quickly.   If you are using a realtor they will use these forms in most if not all cases.  In Texas since we have promulgated forms I don't see many people use attorneys for review.  You have to think if there are 3-4-20 offers on a home and you need to send yours to an attorney for review and that takes 1-2-3-7 days....you will not be competitive.   You may need to determine an alternative.   One thing you might want to do if you are going to be doing a lot of deals is take the Texas Contracts class.  You can do it online or in person.  That might help you.  Some title companies also offer a 1-2-3 hour class occasionally on contracts and addendums.   When you develop a relationship with a title company you might ask if you could sit in on one of those classes.  Typically they're geared towards realtors, but if you asked nicely and give them business no reason they probably wouldn't allow you to take the class too.   In my opinion you want to have good knowledge before you take the title company class as they tend to be geared toward realtors with a base knowledge of them.   I would sit down with your realtor now and go over the contracts before you ever write an offer.   Ask questions now.

Some REIAs also have a class now and then to go over the contact.  So you might call on your local REIAs to see if they have anything scheduled.

I'll send you a link to a great entity formation attorney.

Evictions...I would probably suggest you learn to do these yourself if you have more time than money.  It's fairly easy in most cases.  Go sit in JP court one day when they do them and see what it takes.  Cross that bridge when you get there.  Also there are eviction companies who will do this fairly inexpensively if you have more money than time.  If you have lots more money than time, then hire an attorney to do this for you.

When you shop for title companies you might want to try to find one where an attorney runs it and it is part of their office.  All probably are run by attorney's somewhere, but some may have 1 attorney and several offices, while others have an attorney or more than one in that office.

Hope this helps even if it does not specifically answer your question directly.  Feel free to DM me if you need more direction.