Samantha Foster

Partner

Samantha Foster represents national, regional, and local homebuilders, developers, and property owners in a variety of real estate matters. Samantha primarily focuses her practice on the formation, structuring, development, and operation of homeowners, property owners, and condominium associations and the drafting of contracts, disclosures, and other transactional real estate documentation. Samantha has represented clients in the development and/or operation of communities in the majority of jurisdictions across the state of Florida and Georgia, ranging from a few dozen homes to large, master planned developments. Samantha has experience with single-family, condominium, age restricted, build-for-rent, commercial, and mixed-use developments. She has also represented clients in a range of other real estate transactions, including the acquisition, development, and disposition of real property.

Prior to co-founding O’Ryan Foster, Samantha was a shareholder at a mid-sized law firm in Tampa, Florida. Before moving to Florida, Samantha was an associate at a law firm in Atlanta, Georgia, representing homeowner, property owner, and condominium associations and conducting residential closings. Her internship experiences include positions at a national title insurance corporation, a local bar association, and a legal nonprofit. Prior to law school, Samantha worked as a mortgage loan originator.

 Areas of Concentration

Community Development & Project Structuring

  • Prepare and structure governance related documentation for homeowners’ associations and property owners’ associations

  • Draft and structure club plans and membership agreements

  • Advise clients regarding community development and operational concerns and covenant enforcement

  • Advise and assist clients with community turnover process

  • Preparation of cost sharing agreements, easements, license agreements, and other restrictive covenants and agreements

  • Preparation of purchase agreement disclosures, including community disclosure and information addendums

  • Coordination and assistance with platting and dedications

  • Negotiate property management agreements

Transactional Real Estate

  • Draft and negotiate commercial real estate documents, including, without limitation, purchase and sale agreements, amendments, deeds, notes, releases, estoppels, licenses, easements, cost sharing agreements, management agreements, and covenants, restrictions, and regulations

  • Analysis and resolution of title matters

  • Acquisition, development, and disposition of real property

  • Formation of corporate entities

Notable Experience

  • Represented national and local builders and developers in the formation, structuring, and governance of homeowners’ and property owners’ associations in over 150 communities across the state of Florida

  • Represents developer in the formation, structuring, and governance of a master planned, mixed-use development anticipated to include over 8,000 residential units

  • Represents builders and developers in the preparation and registration of condominium documents for various condominium products

  • Represents builders and developers in the formation, structuring, and governance of multi-use and build-for-rent communities

  • Represented a Fortune 500 homebuilder in the formation, structuring, and governance of communities and master-planned developments across the state of Florida

  • Represented a Fortune 500 homebuilder in the drafting of purchase agreement contract addendums and disclosures

  • Detailed title review and analysis of hundreds of claims risks for national title insurance corporation

  • Conducted over two thousand residential closings

Credentials

  • J.D., honors, University of Washington School of Law, 2016

    • Order of the Coif

    • Pro Bono Honors

    • Education Law and Policy Journal, Editorial Board Member

    • CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Real Estate Transactions, Business & Financial Literacy, & Family Law

  • B.A., University of Michigan, 2012

  • Lorenzo De’ Medici, Rome, Italy

    • Study Abroad, 2010

Admissions

  • Florida

  • Georgia

Professional & Community Involvement

  • CREW Tampa Bay, 2024-Present

  • Society of Real Estate Professionals (SOREP), 2023-Present

  • Tampa Bay Builders Association (TBBA), 2023 – Present

  • State Bar of Georgia, Young Lawyer Division and Real Estate Section, 2016-Present

  • Alpha Gamma Delta Alumni Junior Circle, 2012-Present

  • University of Michigan Alumni Association, 2012-Present

  • Cobb Association of Realtors Young Professionals Network, Board Member, 2018

  • Homeowners Association Network, Board Member, 2019

  • Parents Attending Law School, 2014-2016

    • Co-President, 2015-2016

    • Secretary, 2014-2015

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, 2026-Present

  • Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2021, 2023-Present