This class, How to Sell Houses When Co-Owners Disagree, will discuss the relatively straightforward process of Partition lawsuits, where one party wants to sell and the other does not. This does not relate to lot splits. Instead, this topic actually has much more relevance to today’s residential and commercial real estate industry, which can help Realtors sell more houses. The target audience is salespeople.

In fact, there are many California homeowners who feel locked into co-ownership with a sibling, an ex-partner, or a co-investor who doesn’t want to sell. Many of these people are being turned away by agents who don’t know how to help them. What’s more, co-ownership arrangements like these are on the rise, as more couples choose to buy homes together without being married. A clear understanding of the partition action process, and the liberation it offers, is essential in today’s real estate market.

Elijah Underwood operates California’s Number 1 Partition Law Firm, with experience handling partition trials and complex partition actions including multiple properties, multi-family, industrial, commercial, and million-dollar properties. His firm has handled around 425 partitions throughout California. He is the lecturer on partitions for the California Association of Realtors, and is a member of the Executive Committee for Real Property for the California Lawyers Association. He is considered by many to be the foremost expert on partition law in California. Mr. Underwood is a graduate of UC Law SF, and UC Santa Barbara.

Key Takeaways

Convert leads that are currently being turned away
Learn about a real opportunity of which many agents are unaware
Gain advanced-level real estate knowledge
Learn how to sell a home when an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend wants to be bought out, but the other won’t budge
Learn how to sell property owned by business partners after the relationship has soured
Learn how to sell real estate when one sibling wants to sell an inherited house, but the other does not