by grsgrouptest | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Uncategorized
Some things are obvious, but they just don’t click until someone else points it out to you. That happened to me when I picked up Monday’s Wall Street Journal and read The Outlook article by Eliot Brown on page 2. This article discussed the impact of the current drop...
by grsgrouptest | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog, Uncategorized
Property buyers who fail to perform all appropriate inquiry before acquiring real estate may not qualify for defenses to CERCLA liabilities. “All Appropriate Inquiry” (AAI) is a process defined by EPA and requires both an assessment by an environmental...
by grsgrouptest | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog, Uncategorized
The United States is a group of fifty states, each with their own laws. While the original thirteen states based their laws on the laws of merry old England, many of the western states based their laws on their Spanish influence, and then there is Louisiana, whose...
by grsgrouptest | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog, Uncategorized
Like every insurance policy, a policy of title insurance contains sections dealing with what it is insuring, the conditions of the insurance, and how to file a claim. Today we will discuss the various parts of the ALTA Owner’s Policy of Title Insurance, and what they...
by grsgrouptest | Jan 27, 2012 | Blog, Uncategorized
HREC or Historical Recognized Environmental Condition is a sometimes misunderstood term used in Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and is commonly used to describe situations in which contamination is known to have occurred at a property and cleanup has been...