• San Francisco California Real Estate & Property Attorney

• Squatters Rights and Adverse Possession Quiet Title Attorney

The San Francisco real estate attorney practice of Attorney Daniel Bakondi involves property matters in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the satte of California.

Attorney Daniel Bakondi's real estate attorney  practice involves commercial lease disputes, property ownership and quiet title matters, adverse possession, easements, ownership and deed disputes, premises liability, lis pendence, liens, and regulatory and administrative matters such as subdivisions and licenses.  As a San Francisco real estate lawyer, Mr. Bakondi has represented individuals and entities, restaurants, property developers, builders, real estate purchasers, sellers, landlords, tenants, and property owners. 

Lawsuits against real estate brokers, agents, property management companies, and their firms:

Mr. Bakondi has successfully obtained million dollar judgment against real estate brokers and businesses related to real estate services and investments.  Daniel Bakondi has successfully held brokers personally liable for improper real estate dealings including the improper advising of clients, including elderly and disabled clients.  Mr. Bakondi has litigated against real estate brokers who violate the law, ethical rules with regards to their duties of loyalty, honesty, and integrity to their clients.  If real estate broker has made you sign something that you believe is unfair or unethical, it very well may be.  Many people have lost money as a result of real estate brokers' misrepresentations, omissions, or other improper business practices, including large and major property management companies.  

Real estate and real property litigation lawsuits against the City and County of San Francisco, and other municipalities  

Just because the government tells you something, or brings a lawsuit against you, does not mean they are right.  Just because the government denies liability for a legal injury, or for the breach of a contract or other obligation, does not mean they are correct.  San Francisco real estate lawyer Mr. Bakondi has achieved successful settlement in real property litigation against the City and County of San Francisco, and large and well-known corporations.

Commercial lease landlord tenant property business litigation

Landlord tenant relationships may run into problems, whether they are residential landlord tenant disputes, or more complex commercial leases.  Mr. Bakondi has represented both commercial and residential landlords and tenants in various real estate disputes.  Mr. Bakondi has successfully dealt with matters as small as security deposit disputes and home owner's association rights, and also matters as complex as landlord tenant restraining orders, evictions including unlawful detainer actions, and wrongful eviction lawsuits.  Attorneys strongly discourage self-help and taking matters into one's own hands with regards to frustrating landlord tenant disputes.  Even a matter as simple as terminating a lease early or changing the property rights of a given relationship can result in litigation.    

Mr. Bakondi has been involved in commercial lease and property rights lawsuits including representing the owner of a world famous restaurant and historic San Francisco landmark in commercial lease, contract, and real property litigation.  Business lease disputes often involve not only landlord tenant issues, but complex leases not affected by many aspects of traditional residential landlord-tenant law, and complex contractual relationships, and commercial interests, trademarks, copyrights, expected profits, client relationships, and more.  Residential landlord tenant disputes can also involve business losses, privacy rights, harassment, fraud, firearms rights, just to name a few.  Mr. Bakondi has also successfully assisted the purchase and sale of businesses including restaurants, and helped with licensure, trade name, and other business matters.

Real estate development law, construction and building lawsuits, zoning, property rights disputes, and other business property litigation

Mr. Bakondi has represented real estate developers and property builders in litigation involving a variety of title, property ownership, property right and possession matters against other property owners, neighbors, businesses, buyers/sellers, and cities, counties, and municipalities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Prescriptive Easement and Adverse Possession Litigation

Mr. Bakondi has handled multiple lawsuits involving adverse possession and squatters rights, easement by prescription, and property line disputes. Mr. Bakondi has quieted title in favor of adverse possessors granting them ownership of the property adversely possessed meeting the legal requirements. 

Mr. Bakondi has also defended against adverse possessors, and deflected claims of acquisition of property or movement of boundary lines by means of adverse possession of that land.  Bakondi is experienced in the successful use of county officials as expert witnesses in court hearings to successfully resolve property disputes, including in adverse possession, construction, zoning, property rights, boundary line, easement, and building-related lawsuits.

If you have a serious adverse possession matter, either involving property you are trying to quiet title to, or are dealing with a claim of someone trying to quiet title to your property, please contact Attorney Bakondi by email.

Adverse possession generally has very specific requirements that must be met for the entire statutory period, which in California is 5 years.  Then, Attorney bakondi may be able to bring a quiet title action to obtain title.  To obtain title to property by adverse possession, your possession of the property must be:

Actual possession - The adverse possessor must actually possess the property.

Hostile - It must be non-permissive.  You generally cannot obtain title from your landlord or mortgage company in a landlord tenant relationship.  Proper termination of such relationships are the start of the statutory period. 

Exclusive - The possession must be hostile to everyone's interests.  However, you can have a tenant possess the property for you in some cases.

Open - The possession must be apparent and clear to anyone who inspects the property to see if someone is there.  You cannot obtain title by adverse possession secretly.

Continuous - The possession must be continuous for 5 years, as regular for that property. 

Taxes - You must pay all taxes assessed against the property.

Other real estate matters Mr. Bakondi has handled include:

Mr. Bakondi has litigated both for and against restraining orders and injunctions involving real property and other matters, successfully obtaining court relief related to the real estate building and development process.

Mr. Bakondi has been involved in other real estate litigation involving property damage, flooding, inverse condemnation, trespass to property, interference with possession, constructive eviction, self-help, and other property rights including representing the interests of dozens of property owners against large corporations, the City and County of San Francisco, and other municipalities.

Mr. Bakondi's experience also extends to environmental and mass tort litigation against major foreign owned and domestic corporations.

For more on Mr. Bakondi's involvement in real estate investment litigation, including real estate investment fraud, tenancy in common fraud, and financial advisor broker fraud, please click here.

Please contact using the email contact information above with your questions.  

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