LET A PROPERTY LAWYER PREPARE YOUR LAND/HOUSE PURCHASE DOCUMENTS
We emphasize that you need a Property/Real Estate Lawyer while buying land/building, just like you need oxygen. Every document regarding land must be prepared by a Property/Real Estate Lawyer, or else you have nothing but a piece of worthless paper. You can’t do it yourself.
Only a Property Lawyer can do it for you. Remember that a Lawyer is in a better position to know the correct kind of legal document to prepare. It could be a Deed of Conveyance, Deed of Transfer, Deed of Gift, Deed of Partition, Deed of Assignment, etc. Take this with all seriousness.
A Property Lawyer will do the right thing for you. Don’t let legal fees scare you away and push you into the waiting hands of quacks. Business centres and agents will put you in trouble in the long run, so run from them and don’t look back.
Many land and house buyers have, in a bid to cut cost, fallen prey to the dishonesty of persons whom they otherwise trust, and at the end had their fingers burnt. Patronizing a go-between or a buyer resorting to emergency law practice in legal documentation will surely qualify to make the list of 1000 ways to die in buying land.
It is now common for land or house buyers to engage surveyors, estate agents, land speculators and the likes to secure the preparation of land documentation by a Lawyer.
Avoid it.
APEX CHAMBERS, Law Firm of Property/Real Estate & Business Lawyers in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.