Incorrect Deeds
A small error in a deed’s Grantee name can cloud your church’s title for years. Learn how incorrect deeds happen and why it matters when selling or financing your property.
Tag Archives: Church Real Estate
Churches and For-Profit Tenants: How Leasing Affects Your Exemption
When a church leases space to a for-profit tenant, its property tax exemption is suddenly at risk. Here’s how California’s Church, Religious, and Welfare exemptions differ, and what leasing to the wrong tenant can cost your congregation.
Commercial Property Disclosures in California: What Sellers Must Reveal
Selling commercial or church property in California means disclosing far more than most sellers realize. Here’s what the law requires, why an “as-is” clause won’t shield you from a hidden defect, and how a failure to disclose becomes actual fraud.
Overhanging Trees
California law on overhanging trees — who’s liable for encroaching branches and roots, and what a church can and can’t do about a neighbor’s tree.
What is a Power of Attorney
How a General Plan and zoning ordinance legally relate under California law, and how RLUIPA gives churches specific federal protection in zoning disputes
Principal and Agent in Real Estate
How California law defines the principal-agent relationship in real estate, the difference between general and special agents, and when an agent can be held personally liable.
Removing Fixtures: Rules for Church Tenants
Removing fixtures at the end of a lease is one of the most common landlord-tenant disputes — a tenant installs a projector or new carpet, then wants it back. Here’s how California law decides who actually owns it.