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Explaining the lawyer's critical role in documenting, reviewing, and negotiating the real estate transaction, this useful mentoring guide includes valuable sample language, examples taken from practice, and insightful tips and techniques for how to assist that client to make and close the deal. Author Sidney G. Saltz, a veteran real estate lawyer, draws upon his years of practice lawyer to describe the typical situations and stages of a deal and how to get it closed, including: The role of the real estate broker and how to develop a lawyer-broker relationship that will benefit the client Pre-documentation documents: the term sheets letters of intent, or loan commitment Documenting the transaction and creating the ""law"" of the deal Reviewing and analyzing documents, illustrated by sample concerns and questions Effective rules for communicating comments to the client and to the counterpart lawyer, preparation for negotiation, and negotiating to documents Other issues, including due diligence checklist Preparing for and handling the closing Avoiding the pitfalls that can kill a deal The author offers logical and wise commentary on the key steps in a real estate transaction, demonstrating how a thorough understanding of the fundamentals can successfully lead to a heartfelt handshake that completes the closing.

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Sidney G. Saltz has handled all types of commercial real estate transactions, including development, leasing, acquisition and sale, financing and 1031 exchanges. He has represented clients in industrial, office, and retail leasing, and as well as in ground leases, hotel purchases and sales, movie theater leases, land purchases and sales, and the purchase and sale of large apartments complexes. Mr. Saltz is also a prolific author, writing numerous articles on various aspects of real estate law, and lectures extensively on real estate related subjects. For over twenty years he lectured about leases to brokers at the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, and has participated in numerous panels at educations programs offered by the American Bar Association. Mr. Saltz receive his bachelor of arts degree, with highest distinction, from Northwestern University in 1959, and his law degree cum laude from Yale Law School in 1962, where he served on the Yale Law Journal. He practices in Chicago, IL.

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