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Form-of-the-Week: Authorizations to Prepare an NHD, and a Structural Pest Control Operator Report — Forms 131 and 132

by Amy Platero | Sep 28, 2023 | Buyers and Sellers, Forms, Real Estate | 0

A sellers agent uses Forms 131 and 132 to order out a Natural Hazard Disclosure (NHD) report and a Structural Pest Control (SPC) report.

Risk management practices by the sellers agent in a declining market

by Amy Platero | Jul 24, 2023 | Fundamentals, Real Estate, Recessions | 0

In times of softening home prices, the sellers agent will need to be even more sure to provide the buyer with property reports and disclosures.

The mean price trendline: guidance for when to sell

by Amy Platero | Jun 16, 2023 | Home Sales, Real Estate, Recessions | 0

Sellers who are going to sell within the next five years need to be advised to sell now, not wait.

Form-of-the-Week: A comparative market analysis for setting prices and rents — Forms 318 and 318-1

by Amy Platero | Dec 27, 2022 | Appraisal, Buyers and Sellers, Finance, Forms, Real Estate, Recessions | 0

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.

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.

Home sellers unable to buy in 2022

by Carrie B. Reyes | Aug 15, 2022 | Economics, Home Sales, Real Estate, Recessions | 0

Is it “timing the market” or an inability to buy that’s causing more sellers to become renters?

Form-of-the-Week: Transfer Disclosure Statement, Unique Factors and Conditions Affecting Property and Seller’s Neighborhood Security Disclosure — Forms 304, 308 and 321

by 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.

Form-of-the-Week: Request for Notice of Mello-Roos Assessment and Notice of Your Supplemental Property Tax Bill — Forms 137 and 317

by Amy Platero | Apr 1, 2022 | Forms, Real Estate, Tax | 0

Agents use RPI Forms 137 and 317 to notify prospective buyers about the supplemental property taxes and bonded indebtedness they will receive upon transfer of ownership.

Form-of-the-Week: Property Expense Profile and Homeowners’ Association (HOA) Addendum — Forms 306 and 309

by ft Editorial Staff | Feb 21, 2022 | Forms, Home Sales, Real Estate | 1

A seller’s agent uses RPI Form 306 to disclose a residential property’s monthly operating costs and RPI Form 309 to disclose HOA use restrictions.

Form-of-the-Week: Agency Law Disclosure — For Sales, Exchanges and Leases Greater Than One Year — Forms 305, 305-1 and 550-2

by Amy Platero | Feb 4, 2022 | Forms, Real Estate | 0

An agent uses the Agency Law Disclosure to comply with California disclosure laws setting forth the conduct required of real estate licensees when assisting a principal in a targeted transaction.