Your fee agreement, a purchase agreement, the breaching buyer
Follow the steps of a buyer agent from representation agreement to closing on a buyer’s acquisition of property and recognize a buyer’s breach of the purchase agreement.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Dec 5, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0
Follow the steps of a buyer agent from representation agreement to closing on a buyer’s acquisition of property and recognize a buyer’s breach of the purchase agreement.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Nov 20, 2025 | Buyers and Sellers, Feature Articles, Fundamentals, Letters to the Editor, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Recessions, Your Practice | 0
Delivery of property disclosures to buyers is legislated to occur “as soon as practicable” (ASAP) on inquiry from a prospective buyer, well before a purchase agreement setting a price is entered into.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Aug 11, 2025 | Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0
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.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Dec 9, 2024 | Forms, Real Estate | 0
A seller agent uses RPI Forms 135 and 309 to disclose the existence of an HOA on a subject property.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Dec 4, 2024 | Buyers and Sellers, Forms, Real Estate | 0
A seller agent uses RPI Form 137 to request information from the Improvement District Office about Mello-Roos on a property listed for sale.
Read Moreby Amy Platero | Dec 28, 2023 | Forms, Property Management, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0
These forms are used by a sellers agent as part of the Transfer Disclosure Statement (TDS) to comply with city or county ordinance disclosure requirements and to disclose information about service and maintenance providers currently used on a property listed for sale.
Read Moreby Carrie B. Reyes | Feb 14, 2023 | Feature Articles, Home Sales, Marketing Flyers, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0
How seller’s agents can market a home’s energy use, from a green home to an energy-sucking fixer-upper.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Aug 8, 2022 | Buyers and Sellers, Forms, Real Estate | 0
A seller’s agent discloses the existence of unique external factors or conditions affecting a property’s desirability or security conditions surrounding a property with RPI Forms 304, 308 and 321.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | May 10, 2022 | Buyers and Sellers, Forms, Fundamentals, Real Estate | 0
A seller’s agent preparing a marketing package uses RPI Forms 130 and 131 to disclose the conditions and natural hazards associated with a property.
Read Moreby ft Editorial Staff | Oct 4, 2021 | Feature Articles, Fundamentals, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0
The following is an excerpt from the new edition of the firsttuesday Career Manual, a best practices guide to help new real estate licensees establish their personal brands and boost income. In this excerpt, we discuss solicitation of offers and the marketing package.
Read More