San Francisco residents consider moving to Sacramento Sacramento is the number one destination for homebuyers looking to move outside their current metros.
The Corrective Action Letter: A licensee's first stop on the DRE's discipline train Real Estate Compliance Consultant Summer Goralik shares advice on avoiding and responding to a Corrective Action Letter.
Installment Notes: Interest-Included and Interest-Extra This video covers the use of interest-included and interest-extra installment notes to set the repayment schedule of debt.
Reduced experience requirements for appraisal trainees Applicants for the residential appraisal license no longer need to categorize experience.
Word-of-the-Week: Appraisal Got 60 seconds? Then you've got time for our rapid-fire Appraisal refresher video.
Form-of-the-Week: Agent’s written request authorizing home inspection and NHD report Use RPI Forms 130 and 131 to start preparing your marketing package.
DBO Bulletin Digest September 2020 This month's DBO Bulletin focuses on new tenant and landlord protections, and California wildfires.
Recent Case Decision: DHI Cherry Glen Associates, L.P. v. Gutierrez Is a landlord required to include the Notice of Occupancy Rights under the Violence Against Women Act when serving a notice to pay rent or quit on a Section 8 tenant?
REIT investment: playing the real estate game from the sidelines Learn what factors are helping REIT values bounce back from their early-2020 plunge.
form updates this month
A new series of COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020 forms have just been published on the RPI Forms Download page. The new forms are used by residential landlords when a tenant defaults on amounts due under a rental or lease agreement between March 1st, 2020 through January 31st, 2020. Learn more here.
NEW 15-Day Notice to Pay Rent with Required COVID-19 Declaration:
— Form 575: with rent-related fees, on defaults from March 1st to August 31st
— Form 575-1: without rent-related fees, on defaults from March 1st to August 31st
— Form 575-2: with rent-related fees, on defaults from September 1st through January 31st
— Form 575-3: without rent-related fees, on defaults from September 1st through January 31st
To access all updated forms, view our RPI Forms library
here. Click on Download the Full Forms Library to download our entire catalog.