Why homeowners trust Burnside with serious property disputes.
Homeowners hire Burnside when the dispute is no longer just frustrating. The repair cost is real, the insurance money may be too low, the facts may point toward a serious defect problem, and informal pressure may no longer be enough.
Burnside works on contingency. In plain terms, there is no fee unless money is recovered for you.
The firm is built around a narrow kind of homeowner dispute.
This page explains how Burnside approaches serious homeowner property disputes and why that focus matters when the stakes are high.
Focused homeowner property-dispute practice
Burnside is not trying to cover every kind of residential legal issue. The work is concentrated on serious property disputes involving defect, insurance, hidden-defect, and inspection-related loss.
Built for serious repair-cost matters
These matters often become worth real review when the repair cost is substantial, the scope is disputed, and the owner cannot simply absorb the loss as an expensive inconvenience.
Contingency alignment matters here
When a homeowner is already facing major repair pressure, hourly legal cost can become the next problem. Burnside’s contingency approach is built around matters where that alignment actually matters.
A practical read, not generic law-firm language.
People usually reach out when the builder, insurer, seller, or inspector is already narrowing the issue and the practical stakes are getting harder to ignore.
The first need is often a grounded review of what is really driving the dispute: repair scope, the amount at stake, the documents that matter, and whether formal recovery pressure now makes more sense than more informal back-and-forth.
Focused experience for serious recovery work.
A direct practical review of the facts, documents, repair scope, and money pressure driving the dispute.
Construction, real-estate, and insurance experience that helps connect repair issues to the actual recovery problem.
Readiness to pursue recovery when informal back-and-forth, repeated repairs, or insurer positioning are no longer enough.
The experience behind the work.
Kelly McCann leads Burnside with a background in construction, finance, and trial work. He helps homeowners and property owners with serious disputes involving builders, insurers, hidden defects, and related problems.
Recovered millions for property owners
Through trials, settlements, and other case resolutions.
Construction and cost-estimating background
Useful when defect, repair, and scope issues all affect the same matter.
Finance and real-estate training
Brings practical perspective to repair cost, loss, and recovery strategy.
Follow the path that fits the dispute.
If you want to learn more or bring the issue in for review, these are the best next steps.
Results
See representative matters and the kinds of recovery disputes Burnside handles.
Get a Free Case Review
Send the basic facts in for review if the dispute already feels too large to manage casually.
Construction Defects
Water intrusion, structural issues, repeated failed repairs, and builder disputes.
Home Insurance Recovery
Underpaid, delayed, denied, or narrowed property claims where the repair number is the real issue.
Hidden Defects / Inspection Problems
Serious post-closing problems where disclosures, inspections, and repair cost need a careful review.
Bring the issue in for review.
If the property dispute already feels too serious to leave at the level of guesswork, send the facts in for review.