Commercial and residential real estate transactions with a focus on the Manufactured housing industry
Resident-Owned Communities
Mobile Home Park Law
Real Estate Dispute Resolution
Representative Work
Conducted the sales of multiple cooperatively-owned mobile home parks with sale prices ranging from $6million to $110million
Conducted the purchase and sales of various private operator-owned mobile home parks with sales prices ranging from $8million to $85million
Conducted the financing and refinancing of multiple mobile home parks with financing amounts of $5million to $40million
Serves as general counsel for numerous resident-owned communities in sizes ranging from 100 to 990 units
Publications
Presented at The Fund “Assembly” (May 2025) on the Sale of Cooperatively-owned Mobile Home Parks
Preferential Transfers in Bankruptcy, Vol. 28, The Docket (News from the Sarasota County Bar Assoc.) No. 2 (February 2011)
Real Estate Investors Gone Wild: Can I get out of my Contract?, Vol. 24, The Docket (News from the Sarasota County Bar Assoc.) No. 7 (Aug. 2007). Re-printed in the September/October 2007 edition of Writ of Assistants, published by the Southwest Florida Paralegal Association, Inc.
Salary survey – the results are in!, Vol. 24 The Docket (News from the Sarasota County Bar Assoc.) No. 6 (June 2007)
Admitted
2005 – Florida
2005 – U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
Education
Law School – University of Maine School of Law, J.D., 2005
College – University of Southern Maine, B.S., 2000
Membership
The Florida Bar
Sarasota County Bar Association
Co-chair/Chair-elect, SCBA Civil Trial Section, Aug 2012 – present
Member, SCBA Young Lawyer’s Division Civics Project Committee, Nov 2010 – May 2011
Past-editor, The Docket (Sarasota County Bar Assoc. News), Aug 2011 – Aug 2012
Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals Group
Awards
President’s Award for serving as Editor of The Docket, Sarasota County Bar Association, 2011-2012
Recipient of the Young Lawyers Division of the Florida Bar award for The Most Significant Member Service Project for contributing to the Sarasota County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division’s Salary Survey Project, 2007