GET YOUR PROPERTY/REAL ESTATE LAWYER YOURSELF

GET YOUR PROPERTY/REAL ESTATE LAWYER YOURSELF

While embarking on buying or leasing a property, be sure to secure a Property/Real Estate Lawyer yourself. Letting your vendor, his representative or his agent or even your agent or surveyor secure a Property Lawyer for you could prove fatal.

Remember that your Property Lawyer has a sacred duty to protect your interests and his allegiance and loyalty should be to you as his client.

Allowing them get a Property Lawyer for you could expose your Lawyer to conflict of interests. The Lawyer given to you by the vendor and his agents may in fact be a Lawyer for the vendor.

Even where he is not, it could be difficult to shield him from looking out, even though subconsciously, for the interest of the vendor who could be said to be his benefactor for the purposes of the land buying or lease transaction.

You do not want to end up with a Lawyer for the other side. Source for a Property Lawyer by yourself. That way he will be insulated from the control or influence of your vendor and his agents. Remember that the Lawyer ought to be involved in the due diligence. In practical terms, it is hard to imagine how a Lawyer would independently investigate the claims of his benefactor.

That would be a very difficult thing for the Lawyer to do. To get the best from your Property Lawyer, choose one for yourself. So it is indeed better to err on the side of caution.

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