John David Nisbet

John Nisbet is double Board Certified in Commercial and Residential Real Estate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. A San Antonio native, he is dually-licensed as both a broker and real estate attorney and carried his ~$40 million experience in real estate sales into his legal specialty. He is a University of Texas at Austin and St. Mary's University School of Law graduate and has certificates in mediation from The University of Texas School of Law and business from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Board certification covers acquisition, financing and disposition; earnest money contracts and required seller notices; business entity selection; review of title commitment and survey, including endorsements, exceptions, requirements and objections; due diligence issues, including zoning, environmental, land use restrictions, property condition, existing contracts, and rights of parties in possession; government authority and regulation; financing documents, including loan agreements, promissory notes, deeds of trust, security agreements, financing statements, assignment of rents, and guaranty agreements; usury issues; notice of final agreement, environmental and other indemnity agreements, and third party assignments; options; conveyance documents; listing and brokerage agreements to buy, sell and lease; section 1031 exchanges; actions, remedies and defenses in actions concerning real property, including adverse possession and trespass to try title; ad valorem taxes; bankruptcy’s effect on pending contracts and leases; construction contracts; liens and lien priority, including mechanic’s and materialman’s liens, lien waivers and releases; development, zoning and platting; easements; federal and state regulation of real estate, including the American with Disabilities Act; foreclosures, including UCC Sales, deeds in lieu of foreclosure, loan workouts, and other lender remedies; insurance and indemnities; escrow agent liabilities and duties; interests and estates in real property, including the effect of divorce and death; power of attorney; reservations versus exceptions to title; homestead rights; leases, landlord/tenant rights and responsibilities; management of property; mineral rights and leasing; premises liability; property owner associations and entities; restrictive covenants and other deed restrictions; recording statutes; closing instructions; water rights and classifications; loan rights and remedies between borrowers, lenders, and guarantors; statutes affecting real estate; and consumer law/DTPA/fraud.