Covenant Enforcement
Architectural reviews, fining hearings, and lien work that holds the line on governing documents.
Orlando Real Estate Attorneys
Practice
Areas
Counsel for HOA and condo boards, real estate investors, and owner-operated businesses across Central Florida.
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Three Disciplines.
One Practice.
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01 Communities
Communities
01 Community Associations
HOA, condo, and CDD counsel for hundreds of Central Florida boards.
6 services 02 Investors
Investors
02 Real Estate Investment
Multifamily, commercial, 1031 exchange, and joint-venture strategy.
6 services 03 Founders
Founders
03 Business & Entrepreneurs
Leases, entity formation, and contract work for owner-operated companies.
6 services 01 Communities
Community
Associations
Full-service counsel for HOAs, condominium associations, and community development districts across Central Florida. The practice our firm was built on.
- 300+ Associations
- HOAs, condos & community districts
- Ch. 718 Condo
- Florida statute & milestone-inspection compliance
- Ch. 720 HOA
- Covenant enforcement & governance
- Full Lifecycle
- Turnover · governance · defects · collections
How We Work
DHN was founded in 2013 representing community association managers, and association work remains the foundation of the firm. Today our attorneys serve as general counsel for more than three hundred HOAs, condominiums, and community development districts throughout the Orlando metro and the I-4 corridor: ten Central Florida counties in all.
Boards hire us because we are responsive, plain-spoken, and accountable. We attend meetings, draft the resolutions, and answer the late-night manager email. We do it knowing that every decision your board makes lives in a public record that owners and successors will read.
Our work runs the full life-cycle of an association: from developer turnover and document amendment, through covenant enforcement, collections, and structural-litigation matters, to long-term governance counsel that keeps boards out of court when at all possible.
What We Do
Six core services
for every board.
Most engagements draw on more than one of these. That is the point of having a single firm cover the full association lifecycle.
Board Governance
Meeting protocols, committee structures, and conflict policies that keep boards operating cleanly.
Assessment Collection
Liens, foreclosures, and payoff coordination that recover what is owed without alienating owners.
Construction Defects
Milestone-inspection compliance, expert coordination, and developer-claim recovery for buildings needing major repair.
Developer Turnover
Document review, financial audits, and election support when control hands off to owners.
Document Amendments
Restating declarations, drafting new rules, and recording the changes the way Florida statute requires.
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Where boards bring us in.
A sample of the matters our community-association practice is best known for handling.
- 01
Major Construction Funding
Securing financing for large condominiums undertaking concrete restoration and milestone-inspection compliance.
- 02
Receivership Avoidance
Walking boards through governing documents and Chapter 718 to keep court-appointed receivers off the table.
- 03
CE Instruction
Teaching continuing-education courses for CAMs and board members on the latest statutory changes.
02 Investors
Real Estate
Investment
Strategic counsel for property investors, developers, and landlords, across multifamily, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use deals throughout Central Florida.
How We Work
After establishing the firm's community-association practice, founder Don Nguyen expanded into representing real estate investors, developers, and entrepreneurs, many of whom were already operating in the same Central Florida neighborhoods.
Today we represent individual investors, small funds, syndicates, REITs, and institutional buyers across the full life-cycle of an asset, from a single 1031 swap to multifamily syndicate sponsorship. Our work covers acquisitions and dispositions, due diligence and title curative, joint-venture and entity structuring, 1031 like-kind exchanges, and the long commercial leases that follow once an asset is online.
Clients come back because we are fast on the diligence, plain on the explanations, and comfortable on either side of the table: landlord or tenant, buyer or seller, sponsor or LP.
What We Do
Six service lines
for every deal.
From the LOI to the long-term lease, the same team carries the deal through. Most matters touch two or three of these.
Acquisition & Disposition
Letters of intent, purchase agreements, and closings on commercial and investment property.
Due Diligence
Title and survey review, lease audits, environmental coordination, and clean-closing coordination.
1031 Exchange Structuring
Identifying replacement property, coordinating QIs, and meeting Section 1031 deadlines on tight calendars.
Commercial Leases
Long-form retail, office, and industrial leases negotiated for landlords and tenants alike.
Joint Ventures
Operating agreements, capital stack reviews, and exit-rights drafting for syndicate and partnership deals.
Zoning & Land Use
Variance applications, permitting, and entitlement support when the deal depends on what you can build.
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What investors hire us for.
The deal types our real-estate practice handles most often, in repeat engagements with the same clients.
- 01
JV & Syndicate Structuring
Operating agreements, capital stack reviews, and exit-rights drafting for multifamily and mixed-use sponsorship deals.
- 02
1031 Like-Kind Exchanges
Identifying replacement properties, coordinating qualified intermediaries, and meeting Section 1031 deadlines on tight schedules.
- 03
Commercial Lease Negotiation
Long-form retail, office, and industrial leases negotiated for landlords and tenants alike.
03 Founders
Business &
Entrepreneurs
Counsel for owner-operated companies and the founders behind them: leases, entity formation, and the contract work that keeps a business in business.
How We Work
Many of our clients are founders themselves: restaurateurs, retailers, contractors, professional-service firms, and real-estate-adjacent operators. We represent them with the same level of attention we provide to our largest institutional clients.
Most engagements start with a lease or an entity decision and grow from there. We negotiate commercial leases, draft operating agreements, review vendor and customer contracts, and handle the property-related disputes that come up when a business hits its second or third year.
Our partner Ryan Fong serves as general counsel to for-profit and not-for-profit organizations across Florida, and our team is set up to take ownership of a problem rather than punt it to a more expensive specialist firm.
What We Do
Six service lines
for owner-operators.
The work most owner-operated companies need from outside counsel, handled by a firm small enough to take your call directly.
Commercial Lease Negotiation
Restaurant, retail, and service-business leases protecting operators on rent escalation, exclusive use, and exit.
Entity Formation
LLC, LP, and S-corp formation along with operating agreements and capital event restructures.
Property Acquisitions
Owner-occupied and investment property purchases: diligence, financing coordination, and closing.
Contract Review
Master service agreements, vendor terms, and commercial contracts reviewed against Florida-specific risk.
Landlord-Tenant Disputes
Default notices, evictions, and lease enforcement when the other side has stopped picking up the phone.
Zoning & Permitting
Use variances, build-out permitting, and pre-leasing entitlement work when location depends on what you can do there.
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Where owner-operators bring us in.
Recurring engagements that small-to-mid-sized businesses rely on us to handle quickly and quietly.
- 01
Restaurant & Retail Leasing
Long-form leases negotiated for hospitality and retail operators expanding across Central Florida.
- 02
Entity Formation & Restructure
LLC, LP, and S-corp setups, plus restructures when ownership changes hands or capital events close.
- 03
Vendor & Customer Contracts
Master service agreements, supply contracts, and commercial terms reviewed at the volume operators need.
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