Practice Area
Real Estate Disputes
Stephen Nault handles commercial and residential real estate disputes involving purchase agreements, easements, title-related problems, possession and use conflicts, brokerage issues, construction disputes, liens, and foreclosure or trustee sales.
Property disputes turn quickly from inconvenience to leverage problems.
Who this is for
- Investors, owners, and operators dealing with transaction fallout or property-use conflict.
- Brokers and property professionals pulled into a dispute surrounding a deal or ongoing management.
- Businesses whose real estate problem affects occupancy, revenue, project timing, or financing.
Common problems
- Purchase and sale agreement disputes, earnest money conflicts, and failed closings.
- Boundary, access, easement, use-restriction, or neighboring-property disputes.
- Title, possession, occupancy, or post-closing obligation conflicts.
- Property-management and owner-vendor disputes tied to asset operation.
- Real estate matters where the client needs both business judgment and litigation readiness.
How I approach it
The work centers on documents, timeline, leverage, and the real-world value of the property position. Some matters need negotiated cleanup. Others need more formal dispute positioning to keep the other side from dictating the terms of resolution.
Common mistakes
- Treating a property dispute as purely emotional rather than economic.
- Letting informal text messages or side deals substitute for clear written positions.
- Ignoring the effect of the dispute on title, financing, occupancy, or future sale.
- Waiting too long to gather the operative documents and communication history.
If this describes your situation
The intake form takes about three minutes. You'll hear back within one business day if the matter is a fit.
Common questions
Do you only handle disputes tied to commercial property?
No — the practice covers both commercial and residential real estate disputes. The focus is matters where the property is tied to ownership structure, brokerage, leasing, construction, financing, or ongoing operations.
Can you step in after a demand letter or suit has already been filed?
Yes. The first task is to understand deadlines, the paper trail, and the business objective so that the response strategy is grounded and timely.
Do you work with other professionals on the matter?
Yes. Real estate disputes often require coordination with title professionals, surveyors, brokers, or project teams depending on the issue.
Focused practice pages
Short, intent-matched intake pages on specific issues within this area:
Related Reading
Articles on this topic.
Brokerage Risk
When a Broker Complaint Turns Into a Records Problem
In Tennessee broker complaints, the dispute often stops being just about the allegation and starts becoming about what the transaction file, disclosures, communications, and money records can actually prove.
Brokerage Risk
Commission Disputes That Carry More Than Money Risk
Some Tennessee commission disputes are purely about compensation, but others sit inside larger fights over agency documents, disclosure, authority, communications, and transaction conduct.
Brokerage Risk
When a Transaction Complaint May Also Create Civil Exposure
In Tennessee real-estate transaction disputes involving licensed conduct, the same facts can create both regulatory questions and private civil exposure, but those paths are different and do not always move together.
If any of this sounds like your situation
The intake is structured and short — name, contact, opposing party, brief description. You'll hear back within one business day.