The DRE is partnering with the California Civil Rights Department to provide a free webinar series for property managers.
DRE to host property management webinar
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Due Diligence and Disclosures
Get the most for your clients and protect your hard-earned fee by reviewing the forms you’ll encounter in brokerage services. Stay current on the latest news, videos, forms, and updates for Due Diligence and Disclosures.
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Disclosure checklist in sales and leasing
Here, we examine the public policy of symmetric awareness of a property’s fundamentals by the seller and buyer in all real estate transactions.
Transparency as symmetric marketing
Learn how to persuade a seller-client to order out third-party reports on a property’s condition to enhance marketability, provide a marketing package to prospective buyers and work up effective marketing plans to sell a property when employed under a seller representation agreement.
The safety clause for residuals from due diligence efforts
Learn to appreciate a safety clause provision in exclusive representation agreements as assurance a fee is earned after expiration when your client sells or buys due to your efforts during the employment.
Mobilehome park owners must be in good legal standing to evict tenants or raise rents
Mobilehome parks are required to be registered and titled
FARM: Do’s and don’ts for staging your home
Use this firsttuesday FARM Letter in your marketing. For a list of all our FARM letter templates and copy, visit our FARM Letter page. Have a topic you’d like us to write about? [su_button...
Fees for withdrawal or termination of a representation agreement
Learn to protect your broker’s right to collect a fee when a seller-client removes their property from the market or cancels the representation agreement.
Is percolating groundwater which seeps into an aquifer conveyed with the land when a mortgage holder forecloses on a parcel of real estate?
Sandton Agriculture Investments III, LLC v. 4-S Ranch Partners, LLC
The exclusive employment obligations of a broker
Learn the obligations of a seller and their broker under an exclusive seller representation agreement and whether a buyer is ready, willing and able to buy when submitting an offer to purchase.
Errata & Updates
Chapter 2: The MLS environment. The updated statutory Agency Law Disclosure
and confirmation provision went into effect the beginning of 2019. Both the
content of the form and when it is to be used have been modified. For a
thorough analysis of the new disclosure and confirmation practices, see the
January 2019 article, What you need to know about the refreshed – and mostly
improved – Agency Law Disclosure.
Chapter 32: The breaching buyer’s responsibilities. The first subhead on page
350 should read “Interest depends on property use.”
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.