Homes, Luxury Estates and Land

Our Background With Residential Estates.

Earle Goodman has constructed and sold residential estates in Bel Air, Malibu and the Hollywood Hills and as a real estate broker (DRE License 01096576) has been a member of the following association of realtors: Combined Los Angeles Westside, Malibu, Conejo Valley and Santa Barbara. These associations separately cover areas including Beverly Hills/Holmby Hills/Bel Air/Westwood/Brentwood/Pacific Palisades/Santa Monica, Malibu, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, Santa Barbara, Montecito and Hope Ranch. Earle understands the unique qualities of each environment and why residents would choose to live there.

We Are Highly Experienced In Closing Escrows and Working With Difficult Principals, Brokers, Title Officers and Escrow Officers.

We are highly experienced in negotiating sophisticated residential real estate transactions, closing escrows and working with difficult parties, escrows, principals, brokers, title officers and escrow officers. We know how to negotiate high end residential purchase agreements, implement the transaction through close of escrow and resolve any difficult or unanticipated issues including problems relating to: title, repairs, disclosures, inspections, due diligence, easements, mold, subsurface oil intrusion, encroachments, buyer financial issues, delays in closing due to extensive repairs, lender issues or the difficulty of foreign buyers to transfer closing funds to the United States.

Homes, Luxury Estates and Land Purchase and Sale Transactions, Options. 

We represent buyers, sellers, real estate agents, brokers and finders in transactions involving the purchase, sale and optioning of California residential properties including homes, luxury estates, condominium units and land. For sellers, we represent our clients from the listing agreement to negotiation of the purchase agreement and escrow instructions through the close of escrow and resolution of any escrow or post closing issues. For buyers, we represent our clients with preparing and negotiating the purchase agreement and escrow instructions, inspection and financing issues and the resolution of any escrow or post closing issues.

Seller Carry-Back Single Family Residential Financing. 

We represent sellers who wish to carry back financing on the sale of their personal residences in compliance with the Dobbs-Frank Act one property rule. We draft and negotiate the loan documents and related escrows.

Luxury Residential Leasing.

We represent landlords and tenants leasing high end residential properties on a long term basis or for a few summer months. These include properties along the Santa Monica/Malibu through Santa Barbara coastal corridor and prime Beverly Hills/Bel Air/West Los Angeles locations. We know the areas and where to focus the negotiations. We protect our client's privacy with confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions. We use our own custom leases and are experienced negotiating and adapting the C.A.R. form lease used by most agents. Not only do we assist clients entering into a lease, but when necessary we assist them in terminating or existing a lease and dealing with security deposit returns and repair issues. We also counsel landlords who rent their primary home or secondary properties part time on issues pertaining to income taxation of rental income.

Land Easements For Access, Utilities, Slope Support, Solar/View Easements, CC&Rs; Easement Termination By Merger.

For residential and commercial properties we negotiate and draft insurable, comprehensive easement grant deeds with easement maintenance/use agreements and grant deeds reserving easements. We have prepared easements for many purposes including reciprocal access and utilities, mutual or exclusive right of way and roads, use of and encroachment on adjacent property, solar and view protection, air rights, fences, landscaping, construction related easements incuding slope support, sewers and entry gates. We have drafted easements in gross limited to specific persons, perpetual easements that run with the land, temporary self expiring easements and revocable licenses. For restrictions on adjacent properties we draft CC&Rs. When representing the same buyer acquiring contiguous properties burdened/benefitting from an easement, we draft the grant deeds to confirm the buyer's intent to either terminate the easement by merger or retain the easement..

Neighbor Land Agreements For Party Walls and Boundaries.

We draft land related agreements between neighbors for new or existing party walls and boundary agreements to confirm or establish boundaries between adjacent parcels.