I have a contract signed for a short sale. real estate agent said the banks handed over the sale to there lawyer. What does this mean. Can’t seem to get a answer.
I am trying to buy this short sale

The Nigerian judicial system in spite of the accolades it has generated recently needs reforms to help it move forward. This very sector like others in the country is still sailing in the wrong direction.

The problem of the nation’s judiciary begins with law practice as its actors are often boldly arrogant and full of proud to the society in which they are expected to exhibit intellect and learnedness in reducing challenges. It may be rightly argued that lawyers are not the cause of the nation’s problems but wrong too to conclude that they don’t aid such problems that grow bigger than the nation. Lawyers’ main concern nowadays appears to help obvious perpetrators of evils in our society get justice only to relapse again and again. It is sad to note that even when offenders privately confess to our lawyers, these lawyers go ahead to borrow them excuses to present to the court just because of money.

So many more things are wrong with the Nigerian lawyers who are always in a hurry to take matters that ordinarily should have been sorted out at home to the highest court. You become their client as soon as you present them with what you think is wrong or how you think you have been offended. He never believes that a client can be counseled or made to understand that he is wrong in the matter he is pursuing. The implications are therefore the acquisition of family lawyers to pursue matters that would waste the magistrate’s time and threat of seeking redress in the court even when one is obviously in the wrong.

Every well trained lawyer should posses the tactfulness to deal with issues between two or more persons and bring about peace thus reserve time, efforts and energy of taking up a matter he may never wish to conclude in the first place. Because the lawyers are ever desperate to take matters to court, he often ends up sentencing innocent persons to court. Where is his conscious when he has received gratifications and ready to charge more legal fees? Magistrate’s and judges have on many occasions wondered why certain trivial issues that would ended at the desk of a solicitor or even at the police station be brought before him when there are many urgent and pressing issues to be treated.

It is for this reason that many cases taken to our courts are abandoned by even the one who took such matter to the court. The richer could than just drag an unsuspecting poorer person to court all to teach him a lesson by making spend huge sums of amount or because e has been advised to prove a point by his advocate. Sometimes you wonder whether a lawyer will ever tell you the truth. Court injunctions become the easiest means of killing other people’s opinion. The situation is now that many of these lawyers often abandon matters to which they have been granted injunctions because they are satisfied having proved the point of what they are capable of doing.  As we know it lawyers never accept fallibility. When he wins a matter, he hails the court and when he loses, he begrudges the judge and sees the areas not deeply looked into.

Call your lawyer and inform him on the date of your matter, his reply will unpleasantly beat you. He tells that he doesn’t have enough money to fuel his car to the court. Obviously you begin to understand that he is tired of taking up your matter because it does not generate sufficient money from you to him.

Adjournment is an instrument of waste of time with which a lawyer stalls for time to cause their victims harms. The Nigerian judiciary has not found any solution to this problem eating up that arm of the government. Every lawyer in way likes it but hates to experience it. It is this adjournment that makes a suspect spend many years in jail awaiting or going through endless trials.

He tells you he is learned while you are merely educated but a lot of them shy away from going to courts because there is a new profession called estate management. In Nigeria, Estate surveyors and Valuers and Real Estate Agents are on their knees begging lawyers to allow them practice their rightful profession but a lawyer tells you he is more learned and honest to be entrusted with the profession. But does he conduct valuation of properties? Many lawyers now sit under the trees waiting to rent out single rooms while also avoiding going to the courtrooms.

When a lawyer acts on behalf of their clients in a landlord and tenant matter he is likely to worsen the situation that could have been solved by hurriedly showing the tenant the road to court in a proceeding that could last for more than 2 years before judgment is secured. Te objective of the lawyer in this case is to enable the landlord forfeit his rents for the period that the trial lasts. Usually, tenants abandon the property before the end of such matters are seen leaving his rents unpaid. The landlord well gracefully accepts the situation at least he has his property to rent out to another tenant.

The implication of this again is that an impecunious tenant could use a lawyer as an instrument of delay and avoid the payment of his rent until he moves out of the property on a night taking the landlord unaware. This development is a bad one and needs to be addressed if we are genuinely interested in instilling national morality in our people.