The more knowledge and experience Karl Holtzschue has gathered as a real estate attorney, the more he's learned how to make transactions as simple and straightforward as possible. This renamed and expanded new edition of HOLTZSCHUE ON REAL ESTATE CONTRACTS retains the earlier treatise's thorough, step-by-step coverage of sale and purchase preparations, contract drafting and negotiations, closing preparations, and closings. It now features: discussion of the new ALTA title insurance policies and endorsements; the new amendment to the Agency Disclosure Statute; objective standards to be used on all inspections; acquisition of title by adverse possession; new and updated cases on brokers' commissions; environmental issues; auction sales; statute of fraud; easements, covenants, and restrictions; land descriptions; marketability of title; breach of contract; mortgage commitment contingency; and the Property Condition Disclosure Act and caveat emptor.