Building in Lake Nona
The area covers a mix that is unusual to find in one place: hospitals, research and medical facilities, a sports campus, commercial and office space, and a very large volume of residential construction running from production homes to semi-custom builds. Much of it has gone up inside a compressed window, on a master plan, under community development district and homeowners association governance.
New construction produces a different set of problems than renovation does. Defects surface after closing rather than during the work. Warranty questions land between a builder, its subcontractors and an owner who dealt with none of them directly. And on the commercial and institutional side the contracts are longer, the schedules are tighter, and there are more parties with a claim on the same delay.
How Ready Legal helps
Ready Legal works with owners, contractors and subcontractors on construction matters. That includes drafting and negotiating construction contracts, and handling construction defect claims, payment and lien disputes, and construction litigation.
The firm also represents businesses in the area on formation, contracts, commercial disputes and collections.
Buying and building new
Because so much of the area changed hands recently, a large share of the disputes involve people who bought a home or a building that somebody else had just built. The contract that governs the work is often not the contract the current owner signed, and the parties who did the work may be several steps removed from the person now living with the result.
Ready Legal advises owners and builders on those situations and litigates them where that becomes necessary.
Courts serving Lake Nona
Lake Nona sits in Orange County, which is served by Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit. Litigation arising out of Lake Nona disputes is generally handled in Orange County. Ready Legal's office is in downtown Orlando and the firm is available to represent clients in matters in the Ninth Judicial Circuit.