Due Diligence

This guidance covers Practice 9C: Environmental Due Diligence.

This webinar provides a road map to help you navigate the complex legal, technical and practical matters involved in conservation easement and fee acquisition transactions. Conservation attorney Sara Clark will discuss the essential steps involved in due diligence.

This is a handy checklist for transactions from the Tax Benefits and Appraisals course book.

This guidance covers Practice 9A: Legal Review and Technical Expertise.

Agreements related to the transfer of real property must meet the basic requirements of a contract to be enforceable. This document lays out the basic requirements for the most common types of real estate contracts land trusts encounter.

The high ethical standards to which we hold ourselves as nonprofit land trusts demand that we find a better way to negotiate. This document introduces principled negotiations and includes an exercise suitable for a board or staff training.

Materials from Mark Pennington's Rally 2012 presentation on managing hazardous substance risks in conservation transactions.

This guidance document discusses the specific steps when accepting assignment of a conservation easement.