As an eminent domain attorney for owners, you offer important services to your clients. You work to protect the interests of private property and business owners through a process that is complicated and confusing for those who are inexperienced and vulnerable in a relocation situation. Your services help to ensure fair compensation for your clients.
What if there was a way to add additional value and benefit to your clients, and to improve your overall service offerings? A business relocation consultant, when brought in early for preplanning a business location, can steer things in a direction that will produce better results to the business/property owner that you’re working with. Including a business relocation consultant as part of your team can result in considerable advantage to your clients.
Because federal relocation guidelines don’t automatically guide businesses to the best relocation results, each business relocation, must have some level of analysis performed to distinguish between personal property and real property. It’s also essential to determine the proper amounts and best methods for receiving relocation payments from the public agency while following the relocation guidelines. By adding expert relocation consultation to your client offering, your practice can avoid the disappointment of clients who find out how much out of pocket, non-reimbursable money they spent to relocate their business because of a public project taking their property.
You will benefit from offering preplanning services to prospective clients because you will be offering a more complete package than any other attorney. Preplanning services provide you with something to offer the client right away, while other attorneys are in a holding pattern. This offering will increase the chances of securing the client’s business.
Preparing appeals, planning relocation logistics, and orchestrating and coordinating the actual move itself toward maximum efficiency and minimum client downtime are examples of how business relocation consultation can add value to your attorney services and your clients.
Business relocation consultation and preliminary planning services for those businesses that will be displaced by the project can result in thousands and sometimes millions of dollars in cost reimbursements for your clients that often otherwise go unrecognized and unclaimed. Preplanning a business relocation while following relocation guidelines based on the Uniform Act can greatly improve the outcome of the relocation. Taking appropriate action can result in improved relocation reimbursements received from the displacing public agency, frequently in amounts of twice or more. In many cases when the business becomes eligible for relocation benefits, the relocation consultation services are eligible for reimbursement within the relocation guidelines.
These services are quite unique within the eminent domain industry. By augmenting your professional services to include the expertise of my business relocation consultancy, you can set your practice apart from that of other eminent domain attorneys. If you wish to discuss this further or should you have any questions, or comments, please contact me.
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