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Due Diligence and Disclosures
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Latest Articles
Dear Broker: Handling trust funds is like playing with fire
Real Estate Compliance Consultant Summer Goralik outlines the inherent risks real estate professionals face when handling trust funds and how to counter them.
Legislative steps toward more affordable housing
California’s legislature is addressing the affordable housing shortage with these recent laws.
New law removes obstacles for tenants terminating their lease due to domestic violence
Tenants dealing with abusive living conditions will now have a much easier time terminating their lease.
Form-of-the-Week: A comparative market analysis for setting prices and rents — Forms 318 and 318-1
A seller’s agent uses RPI Forms 318 and 318-1 when educating the seller on a reasonable asking price or rental amount for the property.
California real estate: 2022 in review and a forecast for 2023
Read about the legislative changes and economic shifts which impacted real estate professionals during 2022 – and our forecast for 2023.
New California law clarifies real estate disclosure requirements
California’s legislature has clarified disclosure requirements for real estate professionals.
DFPI Bulletin Digest: December 2022
The December 2022 DFPI Bulletin focuses on new state laws for 2023, license renewal and escrow reports.
Mortgage Concepts: Section 32 restrictions, Part I
Click play to review the mortgage terms and features Regulation Z prohibits in Section 32 loans.
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.”