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Don’t Be a Sucker: The Truth About Guarantor and Cosigner Agreements

by Dennis Beaver | contracts, cosigner, family, financial, Guarantor

August 19, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver Most people understand the risks of being a cosigner for a car purchase or lease. But how should you reply if a good friend or a close family member says, “Will you please be my guarantor — not cosigner, just a guarantor — for...

Think Selling Your Home ‘As Is’ Means You’ll Have No Worries? Think Again

by Dennis Beaver | contracts, homeowner, property damage, real estate

August 12, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver Does this sound familiar? Our longtime client Dr. “G” dropped by the office with a question: “Beave, I want to sell the home I inherited from my parents years ago as is and by myself, without a real estate agent....

Stood Up by a Radio Show: But Was It a Breach of Contract?

by Dennis Beaver | communication, contracts, financial, schedule

June 10, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver Most of us have had the experience of being stood up for a date or some other social interaction, possibly a meeting with a potential employer or customer. In a dating context, according to psychologists, we may never forget the pain...

Know this before signing a ‘letter of intent’

by Dennis Beaver | contracts, lease, letter of intent, Option to Lease

March 22, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver Arizona readers, 80-year-old Sandy and Jim, sent this email with an offer they almost accepted: “We own 100 acres of land ideal for a solar farm and just received a letter of intent (LOI) from a San Francisco company wanting to...

Looking into Leasing Solar Panels? Think Twice

by Dennis Beaver | contracts, liability, Option to Lease

February 20, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver “I am the CEO of an accounting firm that is looking into leasing a solar system for our 8,000-square-foot office building. Some of your articles on solar have been very negative as to leasing options. We have met with solar...

The case of the revoked summer internship offer

by Dennis Beaver | business, contracts, education, lawyers

May 19, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver Every spring American businesses start their search for talent – potential new hires – by offering students summer internships. Some are unpaid and observational. Others, hybrid – at first observational and if everyone agrees, it...
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