RELOCATION LAW 101

for Homeowners and Rental Tenants

Is your property being taken or has it been purchased by the government?

If so, Schnitker & Associates, P.A., presents the following information as a public service:

Questions You need to Ask Your Self:

1. If your City or other governmental entity, such as MDOT, acquiring your home through direct purchase?

2. Has a governmental entity acquired your home through direct purchase or through the use of the power of eminent domain?

3. Have you owned your own home for at least the past 180 days?

4. Have you owned your own home or rented a home or apartment for at least the past 90 days?

If you answered yes to any of these questions you may be entitled to receive relocation advisory services, assistance, payments and benefits from the government.

The next question you need to ask yourself is do you know the appropriate amount of relocation advisory services, assistance, payments and benefits for which you may be entitled?

Most homeowners or tenants are aware of the full amount of advisory services, assistance, payments and benefits that may be entitled to.  In a nutshell, whenever the government acquires your property and you are forced to move, you are entitled to be compensated for the costs to acquire a new home or rent a new apartment/home, the costs to move to the new home, closing costs on the new home and other additional benefits.

While someone from the government may have spoken with you or had a relocation consultant speak with you; the reality is they rarely tell you the whole story.  The government or its relocation consultant often will not provide all of the relocation advisory services, assistance, benefits and payments for which you may be entitled.  Further, it may be worse in other cases and the government’s abuses may be more egregious.  Many times the government will work with private developers in attempt to get around the law that requires them to provide these relocation advisory services, assistance and benefits.

Schnitker & Associates, P.A., is a full-service law firm that practices primarily in governmental takings and relocation law.  Through our firm’s experience attorneys and staff, we know how to make the government follow it duty under the law and pay homeowners and tenants the maximum amount of benefits for which they may be eligible. 

"Our knowledge and perseverance

has resulted in millions of dollars for our clients."