Real Estate Transactions
It is common practice in the County of Haliburton for a purchaser of cottage property to hire a home inspector to inspect the cottage as a condition of the agreement of purchase and sale. If the home inspection report is not satisfactory to the purchaser, the...
Real Estate Transactions
If you owe a good deal of money, I am sorry to say that you can’t hide from your creditors by transferring your home out of your name. Here is a true story. In 1992, the wife was injured in a car accident when the husband was driving. The car insurer made statutory no...
Real Estate Transactions
There are various rights you may acquire when you make a purchase of land in a rural area like Haliburton. You may purchase the surface rights to land, such as the gravel or sand that you want because the land is really purchased to develop a gravel pit or the timber...
Real Estate Transactions
Land registration goes back a long, long time in the legal history of Ontario. In fact, it goes back to about 1795 when Ontario was called Upper Canada. From that time forward until now, a lawyer in the province could represent both a vendor and a purchaser and could...
Real Estate Transactions
The purpose of land registration is to provide a uniform system of registering instruments (documents), such as deeds which create or transfer interests in land. A search of title then discloses the ownership of the land and the restrictions and obligations that may...
