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Heather McDowell leads legal education panel on Advanced Title Insurance Issues

July 11, 2016 By

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Heather McDowell of the Ellinger Carr law firm will be a featured speaker and presenter at a National Business Institute legal education seminar and program on advanced title insurance issues in Raleigh, on July 20, 2016.  Topics that Heather will address include owner’s and lender’s title policies, and marketable title concerns, title encumbrances, commercial title policy endorsements, and title disputes, dispute resolution and indemnification agreements.

Heather and other Ellinger Carr lawyers are frequent speakers and presenters concerning legal issues arising in real estate transactions, including legal descriptions, conditions, covenants and restrictions, title, title insurance and survey matters.

Ellinger Carr is a business law and commercial real estate law firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.   Ellinger Carr lawyers are experienced and knowledgeable counselors, transaction leaders, and business problem solvers, admitted to practice in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and New York.  For assistance in commercial real estate, corporate law and business development matters, please call 919-785-9998 or email Susan Ellinger at sellinger@ellingercarr.com, Steven Carr at scarr@ellingercarr.com, Heather McDowell at hmcdowell@ellingercarr.com, and Sarah Goodin at sgoodin@ellingercarr.com.

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“Mama said there’ll be days like this . . .” Steven Carr presents at Carolinas Housing Council Commissioners Workshop April 23rd

March 2, 2016 By

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Steven Carr of the Ellinger Carr law firm will be a featured speaker and presenter at the annual conference and HUD training workshop of the Carolinas Council of Housing, Redevelopment and Codes Officials in Myrtle Beach on April 23.  Steve will be speaking on recent developments in North Carolina law and HUD guidance on smoke-free housing policies, drug-related evictions and housing eligibility, including the Court of Appeals decision in East Carolina Regional Housing Authority v. Lofton, currently on appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Ellinger Carr is a business law and commercial real estate law firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.   Ellinger Carr lawyers represent housing authorities and handle a wide variety of public housing and affordable housing matters and transactions.  The firm’s lawyers are experienced and knowledgeable counselors, transaction leaders, and business problem solvers, admitted to practice in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and New York.  For assistance in community and housing development, commercial real estate and corporate and business development matters, please call 919-785-9998 or email Susan Ellinger at sellinger@ellingercarr.com, Steven Carr at scarr@ellingercarr.com, Heather McDowell at hmcdowell@ellingercarr.com,  and Sarah Goodin at sgoodin@ellingercarr.com.

 

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Susan Ellinger is a featured speaker at Housing Directors workshop

February 4, 2016 By

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Susan Ellinger of the Ellinger Carr law firm will be a featured speaker and presenter at the annual conference and HUD training workshop of the North Carolina Housing Authority Directors Association in Greensboro on February 29.

Susan will be speaking on recent developments in North Carolina law and HUD guidance on drug-related evictions and housing eligibility, including the Court of Appeals decision in East Carolina Regional Housing Authority v. Lofton, currently on appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court.

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Real Estate: Title, Survey, and Careful Attention to Property Transfer Details

June 21, 2014 By

Ellinger Carr lawyers presenting program on Legal Descriptions, Title Insurance and Surveys in Real Estate Transactions 

Heather McDowell and Steven Carr will be featured speakers and presenters of a program focused on legal issues arising in real estate transactions, including legal descriptions, conditions, covenants and restrictions and title and survey matters.  The program will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina on October 16, 2014.

Attorneys, surveyors, planners, engineers, developers, title agents, bankers, lenders and real estate professionals will benefit from this focused course to understand and to overcome challenges with title and title exceptions.

Ellinger & Carr PLLCThe program will also help participants to improve survey review skills and to get up-to-date on title and survey standards, and to gain practical tips for drafting and addressing conditions, covenants and property restrictions in deeds and declarations.

Heather and Steve will be leading presentations on surveying skills for the real estate attorney, easements, encroachments, compliance with ALTA/ACSM survey requirements, drafting deeds and commercial real estate purchase agreements, title review, due diligence inspections and remedies if things go wrong or disputes arise before the deal can be closed.  For more information about the program, visit www.nbi-sems.com or contact our office about how to register for the program.

Ellinger Carr is a business law and commercial real estate law firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.   Ellinger Carr lawyers are experienced and knowledgeable counselors, transaction specialists and business problem solvers, admitted to practice in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and New York.  For assistance in commercial real estate, corporate law and business development matters, call 919-785-9998 or email Susan Ellinger at sellinger@ellingercarr.com, Steven Carr at scarr@ellingercarr.com, and Heather McDowell at hmcdowell@ellingercarr.com.

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Financings, closings for affordable housing top $335 million

August 14, 2013 By

housing with rising arrow - imagesCA39EVKBOver the past twelve months, Ellinger Carr lawyers have counseled and assisted with the closings of more than 20 complex commercial transactions for the investment of more than $335 million in equity and debt financings of multifamily affordable housing apartment complexes.  These closings provided for tax credit financing, including tax credits allocated by the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency and similar housing finance agencies in other states, for commercial real estate developments in affordable and senior communities in North and South Carolina, and in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Ellinger Carr is presently advising and assisting public housing authorities, other public housing agencies and other clients with implementation of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  RAD is similar to previous HUD mixed finance initiatives, like the HOPE VI program used for redevelopment of public housing communities, including recent HOPE VI project closings and financings that Ellinger Carr lawyers assisted with in Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia.  Our firm’s lawyers also have counseled and assisted with special bond financings under the HUD Capital Fund Financing Program (CFFP).  The lawyers have closed multiple CFFP transactions providing more than $30 million in capital investments and improvements to public housing units in the Carolinas and elsewhere in the United States.  Laurel Street Residential housing photo imagesCANN2ZAF

Ellinger Carr is a business law and commercial real estate law firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Providing safe, affordable housing for families, seniors and developmentally disabled persons has long been a part of the work of the Ellinger Carr law firm, in communities in the Carolinas, the Southeast and elsewhere in the United States.  The firm’s lawyers are experienced and knowledgeable counselors, transaction specialists and business problem solvers, admitted to practice in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and New York.  For assistance in affordable housing, HUD financing, commercial real estate and corporate/business development matters, call 919-785-9998 or email Susan Ellinger at sellinger@ellingercarr.com or Steven Carr at scarr@ellingercarr.com.

 

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Ellinger Carr advising, assisting Housing Authorities with RAD Financing and Conversion Program

August 12, 2013 By

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Ellinger Carr is now advising and assisting public housing authorities, other public housing agencies and other clients with implementation of the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Providing safe, affordable housing for families, seniors and developmentally disabled persons has long been a part of the work of the Ellinger Carr law firm, in communities in the Carolinas, the Southeast and elsewhere in the United States.

Susan Ellinger, the firm’s founding member, has announced that the firm’s lawyers are working currently with housing authorities, non-profits and lenders to apply for and to facilitate the RAD conversions of existing public housing units, where conversions are financially feasible, with private debt and equity financings.

“The RAD program is the latest HUD innovation and initiative designed to convert public housing properties to long-term, project-based Section 8 rental assistance in order to achieve certain goals, including preservation and improvement of existing properties and good quality housing in our communities,” Ms. Ellinger said.  “To meet these goals, RAD provides housing authorities and other owners of these properties with access to private debt and equity financing to address both immediate and long-term capital requirements.”

Ms. Ellinger explained that RAD is similar to previous HUD mixed finance initiatives, like the HOPE VI program used for redevelopment of public housing communities, including recent HOPE VI project closings and mixed use financings that Ellinger Carr assisted with in Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, and Wilmington, North Carolina and in Richmond, Virginia.

“RAD offers new financing flexibility and alternatives for housing authorities, and HUD has committed to a relatively quick and streamlined application and financing process for eligible properties and owners,” Ms. Ellinger noted.

Ellinger Carr is a business law and commercial real estate law firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.   Ellinger Carr lawyers are experienced and knowledgeable counselors, transaction specialists and business problem solvers, admitted to practice in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and New York.  For assistance in affordable housing, HUD financing, commercial real estate and corporate and business development matters, call 919-785-9998 or email Susan Ellinger at sellinger@ellingercarr.com or Steven Carr at scarr@ellingercarr.com.

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Grand Opening for Affordable Multifamily Apartments in Greenville, North Carolina

April 22, 2013 By

Winslow PointeThe NRP Group celebrated a grand opening and ribbon-cutting for its latest addition to the NRP Group’s portfolio of affordable multifamily housing, the Winslow Pointe community, in Greenville, North Carolina.

On March 20, NRP co-founder and principal, Alan F. Scott, hosted Mayor Allen Thomas and Mayor Pro-Tem Rose Glover and other guests from Greenville to announce the completion and lease-up of the Winslow Pointe community, serving 84 families with one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, representing a $10.9 million investment in safe, affordable housing and fully-equipped kitchens with Energy Star appliances,  and a community clubhouse with a community room, Internet access, fitness center and playground facilities.

The Winslow Pointe community is the NRP Group’s latest North Carolina affordable housing community, financed in part with Federal and State affordable housing tax credits and permanent loan financing.  The Ellinger Carr law firm served as counsel to the construction lender, Bank of America, for the initial construction phase of the project.

NRP Group has built more than 18,000 housing units since its founding in 1995, and it manages 96 communities encompassing more than 10,000 market rate and tax credit family and senior apartment properties in North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Texas, Indiana, New Mexico, Florida and Arizona.  It soon will begin construction on its latest North Carolina tax credit property in north Raleigh, North Carolina.

Ellinger Carr is a business law and commercial real estate law firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Ellinger Carr lawyers are experienced and knowledgeable counselors, transaction specialists and business problem solvers, admitted to practice in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and New York.PPC_2919

Among more recent transactions, on April 18, 2013 Ellinger Carr, serving as counsel to the construction lender, Bank of America, concluded a $21.9 million construction and equity financing closing for rehabilitation and new construction of a 95-unit affordable housing property in New Port Richey, Florida.

For assistance in commercial real estate and corporate and business development matters, call 919-785-9998 or email Susan Ellinger at sellinger@ellingercarr.com or Steven Carr at scarr@ellingercarr.com.

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Ellinger Carr helps to build homes and communities

October 9, 2012 By

Ellinger & Carr LogoProviding safe, affordable housing for families, seniors and developmentally disabled persons has long been a part of the work of the Ellinger Carr law firm, in communities in the Carolinas, the Southeast and elsewhere in the United States.  Susan Ellinger, the firm’s founding member, announced that the firm’s lawyers have just concluded a closing in Canadian, Texas for the development and new construction of 64 affordable apartment units called the Oasis Cove Apartments.  The firm served as lender’s counsel for the closing of a debt and equity financing of $14 million.

Over the past year, Ellinger Carr has counseled and assisted with more than 20 transactions and closings for the investment of more than $150 million in financings of multifamily affordable housing apartment complexes and commercial real estate developments in communities in North and South Carolina, and in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Susan Ellinger noted that the pace of the firm’s affordable and historic rehabilitation closings continues in the fourth quarter of 2012, including complex, multi-million dollar transactions expected to close in Atlanta, Richmond, Charlotte, and in smaller communities like Clarksville, Tennessee and DeBary, Florida.

Ellinger Carr is a business law and commercial real estate law firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.   Ellinger Carr lawyers are experienced and knowledgeable counselors, transaction specialists and business problem solvers, admitted to practice in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and New York.  For assistance in commercial real estate and corporate and business development matters, call 919-785-9998 or email Susan Ellinger or Steven Carr.

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