Landlords may no longer charge fees for posting or serving eviction notices or notices to vacate to residential tenants or for accepting rent or security deposit payments by check. Security deposits charged a military service member renting as a residential tenant, when higher than the security deposit charged others, require specific steps.
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Learn to identify conduct giving rise to dual agency representation and understand dual agency as a conflict of interest requiring prompt disclosure and consent.
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Where are mortgage rates now? Check out our weekly interest rate update to track the latest market rates.
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This episode depicts the new negotiating power buyer brokers use to protect their fee – and mitigate business risk.
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An owner entitled to surplus funds remaining from the foreclosure sale of their residence are chased by individuals attempting to make claim on the surplus funds. Now these surplus fund chasers are barred from contacting the owners for 90 days after the trustee’s deed is recorded to better protect California homeowners in a vulnerable position.
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Track the single most influential factor on California’s real estate market: the number of people employed.
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Take a more active role in the discussion of real estate trends and practice on the firsttuesday...
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Learn to estimate the potential income, expenses and initial investment you experience as a newly licensed agent employed by a broker and how to evaluate competing broker firms for suitability with your professional goals and expectations.
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Commercial vacancy rates rose after 2023 and continue to rise in Southern California. While increasing vacancies cut into rental income and leasing fees, the absorption rate is worsening and shifting the source of leasing fees. Regions with the highest vacancy rates see the most occupancy of vacant space.
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A buyer broker uses RPI Form 151 when preparing an offer to purchase income-producing real estate, excluding one-to-four unit residential property.
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In early 2025, low-tier priced housing has the lowest level of inventory available for sale or rent.
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An owner’s rights extend beyond the mere physical aspects of the land, airspace and improvements located within the described boundaries of the parcel.
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Grab the buttered popcorn as we bring buyer representation to life as a sample transaction in the latest episode of the series.
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Learn how brokers oversee agents, the office policies a broker puts in place to comply with their duties owed to clients and the Department of Real Estate (DRE), and how licensee status relates to labor regulations, taxation and issues of liability.
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The Buyer Representation Bonus Training™ is available to current and future firsttuesday students without charge. The Bonus Training contains everything brokers and agents need to operate successfully in the new paradigm — the buyer representation mandate in 2025 and beyond.
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What’s a broker to do until home sales volume takes off?
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Home prices falter across the metropolitan areas of California at the end of 2024.
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Real estate agents negotiating a transaction advise clients on tax consequences
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Use this firescaping firsttuesday FARM Letter in your marketing.
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Use this fire hardened homes FARM letter in your marketing.
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