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5 Tips For A Smooth Home Purchase

By Ben Gehlbach On March 25, 2014 ·; In Real Estate, Settlement
Bayer&Kaufman wants your closing to be as easy as possible:  Here are our top 5 tips to ensure that your closing goes well and that you are in your new home as soon as possible. 1. Organize your documents!   Take the time to get everything together a few days before your closing, this will [...]
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Real Estate Investment Trusts and FIRPTA Withholding

By Mark Bayer On December 12, 2013 ·; In FIRPTA, Real Estate
By Mark A. Bayer, Esq. & Benjamin D. Gehlbach, Esq.   Section 1445 of the Internal Revenue Code, also known as The Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980 (FIRPTA), provides that, in cases involving the sale of a U.S. real property interest by a foreign person, purchasers, certain purchasers’ agents and settlement [...]
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The Benefits of Owner’s Title Insurance

On December 4, 2013 By Ben Gehlbach
The Benefits of Owner’s Title Insurance:  Ohio homeowner’s legal battle of quiet title lawsuit illustrates the value of Owner’s Title Insurance.  Should such an action arise, if you have an owner’s title insurance policy, the title insurer will litigate the matter on your behalf.  Please contact The Bayer&Kaufman law firm if you have any questions about [...]
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Mark Bayer Appears on WMAL’s Eric Stewart Show

On January 28, 2013 By Mike Weaver
Mark Bayer joins WMAL’s Eric Stewart Show, Pointing You Home.  Click the links below to listen as Mark Bayer discusses current issues in real estate. Sunday, January 27th podcast: Sunday, January 2oth podcast:
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Colonial Era Peculiarity Bedevils Baltimore Homeowners

On January 11, 2013 By Mike Weaver
A colonial era peculiarity of Baltimore area real estate law causes uncertainty for modern real estate transactions: The existence of ground rents in Baltimore and surrounding counties dates back to colonial times: colonists settling in the area paid taxes to Lord Baltimore for the right to do so. As this system wound down, a system [...]
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Update: The Estate Tax Repeal Act – HR 1259

On May 3, 2012 By Ben Gehlbach
The Estate Tax Repeal Act of 2011, introduced by Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) along with 206 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives as H.R. 1259, has been brought back to the national spotlight.  In a public letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Representative Austin Scott (R-GA) has urged the Speaker to bring the bill up [...]
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Estate Tax and President Obama’s 2013 Budget

On February 29, 2012 By Ben Gehlbach
Estate Tax and President Obama’s 2013 Budget Earlier this month, President Obama released his 2013 budget proposal. While much of the media coverage has focused on the treatment of individual income tax rates for upper-income earners, the budget proposal also laid out substantial changes to our current estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax regimes. Although [...]
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Estate Planning for Same Sex Couple in Maryland

On February 29, 2012 By Ben Gehlbach
Same-Sex Marriage in Maryland Last week, Maryland took steps to join the District of Columbia and eight other states in legalizing the marriage of same-sex couples. The Maryland Senate passed the measure 25-22 following an equally contentious vote on the measure in the House of Delegates, clearing the way for Governor Martin O’Malley’s signature (an [...]
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Bayer & Kaufman Firm Description and Services

On January 2, 2012 By Mark Bayer
Bayer & Kaufman LLP provides expert real estate and settlement services, and offers expertise in landlord and tenant law, personal injury, probate proceedings and domestic relations.
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Primer: What is Title Insurance?

On December 7, 2011 By Ben Gehlbach
What is title insurance? Prior to the development of title insurance, buyers in real estate transactions bore the sole responsibility for ensuring that the title they were receiving from a seller was clear of liens, encumberances and other title defects.  As a result, many real estate transactions proceeded very slowly, as this insecurity forced prudent buyers to exhaust [...]
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