Landlord Tenant

Our Landlord Tenant group represents commercial and residential property owners and managers in all areas of landlord/tenant law. Our clients buy, sell, develop, improve, finance, own, manage and lease office buildings, retail and mixed-use shopping centers, industrial facilities, raw land, warehouses, office and residential condominiums, multi-family communities and single-family developments. We represent these clients on a national, regional and local basis.

The highly experienced attorneys in the group provide timely advice, in the areas of landlord/tenant law to our owner and manager clients. Our attorneys work closely with our clients to deal with developing issues, providing on-site training and drafting lease addenda and policies to address statutory changes and emerging areas of concern.

Our Landlord Tenant group attorneys have an in-depth understanding of the issues prevalent in drafting, negotiating and enforcing rental criteria, applications, commercial and residential leases, property management agreements, and internal policy manuals including:

State and local landlord/tenant laws, including eviction, security deposits, mandatory disclosures, applications and habitability
Federal, state and local ADA, fair housing and anti-discrimination requirements
Municipal code enforcement
Government requirements

We have exposure to virtually every facet of this unique specialty area of real estate law. There are few Texas law firms with our breadth of experience in multi-family housing. Specific multi-family practice areas include: landlord/tenant litigation, evictions, bankruptcy and Fair Housing issues.