I have often in my law practice advised my clients that the first rule of contracts is: "Read the contract!" Now, after a recent North Carolina Court of Appeals decision, I can emphatically say that it is their legal duty to read the contract before they sign it. In...
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North Carolina Housing Credit Awards Announced; $1.1 Billion in New Investment in Affordable Housing
More than $1 billion in new economic investment is coming soon to build and preserve affordable housing in North Carolina, according to Chris Austin, Director of Rental Investment for the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency. Housing credits were awarded by the NCHFA...
Home Work: Building Affordable Housing in Wake County and North Carolina; Renters at Risk
North Carolina and Wake County are continuing to keep pace and to set the pace of residential real estate development in spite of months of coronavirus pandemic, and we are bucking the reported slowdown of affordable housing construction elsewhere in the United...
Home Work – Affordable Housing Initiatives in the Carolinas
The great need of safe, decent and affordable housing is being addressed by legislators and city leaders in the Carolinas, and more work needs to be done. The South Carolina General Assembly enacted and the South Carolina Governor signed into law the Workforce and...
Business Acquisitions from Start to Finish – helping clients buy and sell businesses
Steven Carr, one of the Ellinger Carr lawyers, will be a featured speaker and presenter at an upcoming seminar designed for lenders, loan officers, accountants, paralegals and lawyers on the topic of business acquisitions and helping clients buy and sell businesses. ...
Let’s be reasonable – the meaning of reasonableness – part 1
Let’s Be Reasonable - part 1 by Steven Carr The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. --Marcus Aurelius Lawyers...
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