When husband and wife sold their rental property, Tallwood, wife agreed that $5,000 could be escrowed because of a dispute over payment for repairs to the property, but wife did not prove she otherwise would have qualified for a 1031 ...

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Although plaintiff contends defendants improperly instituted a non-judicial foreclosure proceeding on her home, an Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses her complaint with prejudice. Two cases with near identical facts were brought in this district and dismissed on similar grounds, Merino ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court dismisses plaintiff’s suit alleging loan and renovations fraud, as plaintiff has failed to allege the requisite elements of a claim for fraud. This matter is before the court on demurrer of defendants Cornerstone Investment Funding (CIF) ...

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An unusual claim to land ownership will not face a challenge in Alexandria Circuit Court, reports the Alexandria Sanitation Authority. The utility has agreed to pay $36 million to a company formed by real estate developer Charles Hooff and Alexandria ...

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In March 2008, Judge David F. Pugh ruled that the property owner’s property had been taken and damaged when the City of Newport News accepted into its storm water management system a drainage system that created a flooding condition on ...

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A Fairfax County Circuit Court jury has returned verdicts totaling almost $700,000 for a woman who contended that she had been scammed by a disbarred lawyer who was operating fraudulent mortgage modification and debt counseling businesses. The verdicts may be ...

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Among the appeals granted recently by the Supreme Court of Virginia is a contention that a Fairfax County Circuit judge erred in allowing a corporate defendant to assert repudiation as a defense to its former president’s breach of contract claim, ...

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In defendants’ appeal of a bank’s successful unlawful detainer action in general district court, a Fairfax Circuit Court says defendants may introduce evidence of title only as it relates to who has the superior right of possession, but it cannot ...

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A Loudoun County homeowners association was required to arbitrate a dispute with property owners over whether the owners could install a basketball goal on their property, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled today in an unpublished order. The property owners ...

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A Loudoun County homeowners association was required to arbitrate a dispute with property owners over whether the owners could install a basketball goal on their property, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled today in an unpublished order. The property owners ...

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