Practice Areas

I help you determine how to develop or zone your property for a coliving or real estate co-ownership project. I help you consider these options:

  • lot splitting and subdividing,

  • building ADUs,

  • retrofitting commercial properties,

  • shared housing buildings,

  • group housing, rooming houses, congregate residences,

  • and the nexus between “functional family” and development options.

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Development Support

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I help you choose an arrangement for holding your property. An arrangement is a legal structure. It may involve ownership, rental, or a mix of both. Arrangements include:

  • master lease and subleases,

  • tenancies in common,

  • limited liability companies,

  • housing cooperatives,

  • condominiums, and

  • mutual benefit corporations.

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Arrangement Choice

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I draft ownership agreements, rental agreements, and related documents for coliving projects, co-buying groups, and real estate co-ownership projects. Agreements include:

  • master leases and subleases,

  • tenancy in common agreements,

  • limited liability company operating agreements,

  • housing cooperative bylaws,

  • condo project bylaws and CC&Rs, and

  • mutual benefit corporation bylaws.

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Agreement Drafting

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My Readability Guarantee

My memos and agreements won’t make your eyes glaze over. You’ll be able to make decisions using them. You shouldn’t have to pay a lawyer to interpret them.

I write documents for you to read. Other lawyers write documents for lawyers. They write at a graduate reading level. Every document I write for you will be at a 10th grade level per the Automated Readability Index.

I structure documents for readability. Other lawyers use all caps, justified text, narrow margins, no line spacing, and no color. These strain your eyes and reduce readability. I use document design best practices to improve your experience.

And if you do need help interpreting an agreement down the road, I promise to help you at my current hourly rate. If what I wrote wasn’t clear, that’s on me, not you.

Testimonials

  • Our team was invigorated by Jay's ability to distill information that felt very complex, multifaceted and multi-layered for us. Jay's keen ability to listen, and summarize our team's goals, vision, and desires around coops then subsequently provide the key information we need to consider and weigh our options was truly excellent.

    — Ofelia Bello, EPACANDO and Pahali CLT

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