Q: What kind of lawyer would deal with neighbor issues? Specifically, secondhand smoke problems.
I'm an owner of my home in a COA. My COA sealed around some common pipes, but the secondhand smoke still seeps into my home and affecting my breathing. The COA can't tell me why this is happing and my neighbor's efforts has not stop the issue and has grown worse in the last five months. I've spoken to him several times, but nothing has truly come of it.
A: Seeping of toxic vapors onto one property from another is Nuisance, and your best choice of counsel might be a lawyer who does real estate litigation. If there are resulting health concerns and medical bills, a personal injury lawyer might consider the case, but the financing model for such lawyers is usually contingency fees. Unless the medical bills are well documented as related and are significant in size, a contingency fee retainer agreement isn't going to work. A real estate litigator may have more sensitivity to your budgetary limitations and the value of the real estate as a factor in mapping out a strategy.
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A: I can only surmise that a Home Owner's Association lawyer would be the type of lawyer you want to find for your situation.
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