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Scott is a lawyer with the firm’s Real Estate Group. He provides counsel to private individuals and businesses that own, occupy, rent, option, acquire, sell, finance, construct and develop real property. He has been an attorney with the firm since 1998 and has nearly 10 years of California real estate law experience.
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Representative Matters:
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Retail Lease Restructuring: assisted a retail landlord on multiple occasions with rent-deferral programs to preserve receipt of rental income from cash-poor tenants.
Property Taxes (Proposition 13): responded to County Assessor inquiries on behalf of Lake Tahoe estate-style property-owners to demonstrate that complex history of ownership transfers were not reassessment-triggering events and did not alter low base year value of property.
Cellular Antenna Tower Leasing: ongoing counsel and legal advice to prominent cell tower “farm” landlord with complex wireless communication site leasing issues.
Sale of Problem Property: teamed with the real estate agent for a residential rental property owner to successfully handle a tenant interference problem that threatened to derail clients’ plans to sell the property.
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Education: |
University of California, Hasting College of Law J.D. 1998
Third-Year Class Council
Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.B. 1992
Varsity Baseball; All-Conference
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Real Estate Co-Ownership Briefs: |
Property Tax Re-assessment Upon Transfer of Co-owned Real Property By Scott M.Toussaint
(PDF) (HTML)
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Thoits, Love Hershberger & McLean
285 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 300
Palo Alto, CA 94301 |
Email: stoussaint@thoits.com
Telephone (650) 327-4200
Facsimile (650) 325-5572 |
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