REAL ESTATE

Discovery Referee

Tel: (949) 863-9800

Representative Case Summaries

​Michael G. Balmages,Esq.

Arbitrator

Mediator

• Claim by city against homeowner regarding failure to comply with inverse condemnation agreement.
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• Former spouses suing over joint ownership of property, repayment of expenses and fraud.
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• Claim by Trustee/Landlord against former tenant/beneficiary of trust for past due rent, destruction of premises and environmental contamination.
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• 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.
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