California legislation has evolved to provide more certainty of payment on claims made by property owners with coverage for wildfires.
Homeowners insurance and wildfires
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Legal Aspects of Real Estate
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Recent updates to the course e-book
- In Chapter 25, references to “a intervivos trust” should be “an intervivos trust.”
- In Chapter 33, in the third bullet point beginning “55 or older with an annual income…”, $15,000
should be $25,000 and $20,000 should be $35,000. - Answer Key for Quiz 9, Question 2. The correct answer should be “d.”, not “c.
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.
Newly published related content
Form-of-the-Week: Modification of Representation Agreement and Release and Cancellation of Employment Agreement — Forms 120 and 121
After entering into a representation agreement with a client, an agent uses the Modification of Representation Agreement to change the terms of the employment without canceling it and to terminate the authorization to represent, an agent uses the Release and Cancellation of Representation Agreement.
Real estate photography as advertised
New legislation mandates transparency in real estate photography by requiring labels for digitally manipulated images used in advertising and promotion.
Environmental disclosures big and small
New legislation mandates disclosure of tobacco and nicotine products as a common environmental hazard.
Homeowners insurance payouts to increase following a state of emergency
A new law holds insurers to higher standards when responding to homes destroyed resulting from a state of emergency.
New law pushes ADUs as housing following the LA wildfires
A new law is wresting control from the Coastal Commission on ADUs.
Builder controlled CC&R modifications to allow new housing
What earlier developers did in their CC&Rs, today’s home developer can now undo.
FARM: Competitively pricing your home
Use this firsttuesday FARM Letter in your marketing. To request a FARM letter topic, or to see a list of all our FARM letter templates, visit our FARM Letter page. [su_button url="http://journal.firsttuesday.us/wp-content/uploads/FARM-Letter-Template-User-Guide.pdf"...
DRE Bulletin Digest: Fall 2025
The Fall 2025 Real Estate Bulletin examines statistics from the California Department of Real Estate’s last fiscal year regarding their activities.