Oct 6, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
Judge Gill of the Chesterfield County Circuit Court recently had the chance to review whether a homeowner was bound by a restrictive covenant obliging him to pay for his homeowner’s association’s common area maintenance and other fees. In Romito v. The Bexley...
Oct 5, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
Back in August, I posted about Judge Williams’ decision in Kersey v. PHH Mortgage Corp. to kick a foreclosure case back to state court due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction. If you recall, the home owner in that case argued that PHH could not foreclose because...
Oct 1, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
Cherry, Bekaert & Holland has released a completed audit of the Virginia Department of Transportation that detailed almost $1 billion of unspent money. “McDonnell’s Millions” will run this holiday season as Gov. Bob McDonnell announced that VDOT...
Oct 1, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
After just a brief stay as the County Manager of Arlington County, Michael Brown has left the position, and Barbara Donnellan, who was acting County Manager prior to Michael Brown being hired, has now been appointed as the new permanent County Manager of Arlington...
Sep 29, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
As many of our readers know, the new Crystal City Sector Plan was considered last night (see here for our prior analysis of the proposed plan), but did you know it contained a proposal for a Tax Increment Financing (“TIF”) fund to include the Crystal City,...
Sep 28, 2010 | Real Estate, Land Use & Construction Law
On the return trip from visiting my brother and his family in North Carolina this weekend, we randomly stopped at an Arby’s off I-95. We were greeted by not just surprisingly good food in a suprisingly clean spot, but also a surprise thought exercise in food,...
