Transfer Disclosure Statement (TDS)

Communicating with home inspectors

by Carrie B. Reyes | Mar 16, 2023 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Your Practice | 2

The real estate agent and home inspector are crucial figures in a home for sale — but do they need to get along?

A home inspection report: the liability shield for a seller’s broker

by Carrie B. Reyes | Feb 16, 2023 | Buyers and Sellers, Feature Articles, Laws and Regulations, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

A home inspection report is used by a seller’s broker to shift the risks of non-disclosure liability in their use of a seller’s Transfer Disclosure Statement.

Home defects face greater scrutiny in 2022’s cooling market

by Amy Platero | Aug 22, 2022 | Buyers and Sellers, Economics, Fundamentals, Laws and Regulations, Real Estate | 0

Today’s sobered homebuyers have greater liberty to leverage home defects to justify a price cut than they did the last two years.

Form-of-the-Week: Lead-Based Paint Disclosure and Hazards Disclosure Booklets – Forms 313 and 316-1

by Amy Platero | Jun 10, 2021 | Forms, Real Estate | 1

Lead-based paint hazards and environmental hazards which may exist on any property are disclosed to prospective buyers with RPI Forms 313 and 316-1.

Word-of-the-Week: Home Inspection

by Gregory Bretado | May 10, 2021 | Real Estate, Video | 0

What is a home inspection? A home inspection...

Brokerage Reminder: Permit no omissions

by ft Editorial Staff | Feb 15, 2021 | Brokerage Reminder, Real Estate | 0

When the permit status of a home improvement is unknown due to the seller’s lack of knowledge, it becomes the buyer’s agent’s responsibility to further investigate.

Word-of-the-Week: Lead-based paint hazard

by Gregory Bretado | Jan 12, 2021 | Real Estate, Video | 0

Lead-based paint hazard – Any condition that causes exposure to lead from lead-contaminated dust, soil or paint which has deteriorated to the point of causing adverse human health effects.

Brokerage Reminder: When in doubt, disclose – always!

by ft Editorial Staff | Aug 10, 2020 | Brokerage Reminder, Investment, Real Estate, Your Practice | 1

Brush up on the Transfer Disclosure Statement and the importance of disclosing material facts to buyers and sellers.

Brokerage Reminder: The know-how to disclose

by ft Editorial Staff | Apr 6, 2020 | Brokerage Reminder, Real Estate | 4

“As is” vs. “as disclosed” On the sale of a one-to-four unit residential property, the seller...

The redundancy of the Agent Visual Inspection Disclosure (AVID)

by Benjamin J. Smith | Jan 6, 2020 | Fundamentals, Real Estate | 2

Why doesn’t RPI Forms publish a version of the Agent Visual Inspection Disclosure (AVID)?

Letter to the editor: Can I list an “as-is” property for sale in California?

by ft Editorial Staff | Sep 3, 2019 | Buyers and Sellers, Letters to the Editor | 0

Properties may not be listed “as is.” Rather, properties as listed as disclosed, a difference more significant than just semantics.

Termites and the California home sale

by Carrie B. Reyes | Jul 22, 2019 | Buyers and Sellers, Feature Articles, Home Sales | 2

This article covers need-to-know termite topics for California real estate agents, including inspections, forms and customs.

The Hazards Disclosure Booklets

by ft Editorial Staff | Feb 1, 2019 | Feature Articles, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

This article highlights the use of first tuesday’s Hazards Disclosure Booklets by a seller’s agent to provide environmental hazard and energy efficiency related information to all prospective buyers, and by a buyer’s agent to review with their buyer the consequences of any hazards disclosed as existing on the property.