-: My name's Joshua Savage.
I'm a real estate attorney in Indianapolis, Indiana.
A real estate attorney is essentially somebody
who works with either developers of commercial real estate
or a bank that's going to lend money to those developers.
So my role can be on either side of that fence.
So a lot of times we'll get approached,
my firm will get approached,
by somebody that wants to build,
say, like an apartment complex.
And they have all the know-how
on the business side of that.
On the legal side of that is where we come in.
And so we help them go through all the due diligence,
kinda like buying a house where, you know,
you go, you have people inspect the property
to try to figure out what's wrong with it,
what's right with it,
and then, you know, you line up financing for it.
And so you're sorta the go-between between the developer,
somebody who's selling the property to the developer,
the bank who's gonna lend the money
to maybe construct or buy the property or both.
And then, you know, you're negotiating documents
for the sale and purchase.
You're negotiating documents for the loan.
A lot of the job is just you trading
different, you know, types of documents
like a mortgage back and forth
or a purchase agreement back and forth.
And you're putting in terms that you want for your client,
and then the opposing attorney's putting in terms
that they want for their client.
So that all kind of changes
depending on what hat you have to put on
if you're on the, you know, seller's side
or buyer's side or bank side.
So I kinda live in that world.
And your job as an attorney is to sorta usher
a project through from start to finish,
minimizing all the risks and potential liabilities
that you could face down the line
if the project goes awry.
So I'm what would be considered a transactional attorney.
And so that's kind of more of a glorified paper-pusher,
but gettin' deals done.
And so I think it's gratifying for those
that don't want to deal with battling
every single day.