Property
We represent buyers, sellers and owners of real property in Eastern Oregon: farms, ranches, timber land, homes and commercial property. We handle the transactions, from the agreement through closing, and the disputes over title, boundaries, access, water and leases.
Services we provide
- Purchase and sale agreements, deeds and closings for farms, ranches, timber ground and homes
- Resolve title issues
- Easements, access and road agreements, and the disputes over them
- Boundary disputes, adverse possession, quiet title and partition
- Water rights: transfers, purchases, and irrigation district questions
- Farm, grazing and commercial leases
- Land use applications, permits and appeals
- Eminent domain and inverse condemnation
Eminent Domain
Representing landowners, and at times public bodies, in eminent domain and condemnation: the public-use question, just compensation, and inverse condemnation.
Easements and Access
Easements for roads and utilities: written, prescriptive and implied easements, ways of necessity, and disputes over gated roads.
Boundaries
Boundary disputes and agreements: adverse possession, quiet title, ejectment, partition and property line adjustments.
Water and Irrigation
Water rights as they attach to land: prior appropriation, certificates and transfers, adjudicated rights, forfeiture, irrigation districts and ditches.
Leases
Farm, grazing and commercial leases, drafted, reviewed, negotiated and enforced for landlords and tenants.
Transactions and Title
Buyers and sellers of farms, ranches, timber land, homes and rural parcels, from the agreement through due diligence and title review to closing.
Land Use
What an owner may build or divide on farm and forest land, conditional uses and variances, rural permits, and appeals to the county and to the Land Use Board of Appeals.
Experts and Maps
The surveyors, appraisers, engineers and water rights examiners we work with on land matters, and the maps we prepare.