REAL ESTATE
Representative Case Summaries
Michael G. Balmages,Esq.
Discovery Referee
Arbitrator
Tel: (949) 863-9800
Mediator
- Fraud in connection with home sale; nondisclosure of using and feces smell and mold.
- Return of deposit on business condo purchase.
- Suit by seller against buyers, both sets of brokers and third-party hard money lender re default by buyer.
- Claim by city against homeowner regarding failure to comply with inverse condemnation agreement.
- Former spouses suing over joint ownership of property, repayment of expenses and fraud.
- Claim by Trustee/Landlord against former tenant/beneficiary of trust for past due rent, destruction of premises and environmental contamination.
- Represented former owner of major Fountain Valley apartment complex against buyer’s claims of fraud and breach of contract.
- Represented trustee in probate petition to determine interest in real property. It was a battle of a 3rd wife against her step-children.
- Represented buyer of hotel in Korea Town against numerous "squatter" tenants.
- Represented residential landlords in more than 500 unlawful detainer actions, many of which went to trial on issues of habitability and retaliatory eviction.
- Represented residential tenants in more that 25 unlawful detainer actions, many of which went to trial.
- Represented commercial landlords in more than 50 unlawful detainer actions, many of which went to trial.
- Represented commercial tenants in more that 15 unlawful detainer actions, many of which went to trial.
- Represented tenant/optionee in specific performance action to compel owner to sell house to her upon exercise of tenant’s option to purchase.
- Represented lawyer in specific performance action to purchase office building.
- Represented plaintiffs, sellers of hotel via online sales website against defaulting buyer.
- Represented a brother against his brother in a partition action involving property left to them by their mother.