New defensible space rules to harden improvements
New defensible space rules aim to protect suburban and rural homes from high wildfire risk.
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Picture Perfect: AI Advertising Made Compliant
Artificial Intelligence Training: Harnessing AI While Managing Risk™
This fourth installment highlights the critical need to maintain strict compliance with advertising laws when using AI-generated content, and the proper handling of digitally manipulated property photos.
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BPO series: Property conditions influence value
Learn to adjust a property’s valuation to reflect deviations based on its geography, the presence of natural hazards, level of improvements, energy efficiency and best use.
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From Human to Hardware: Maintaining the Standard of Oversight
Artificial Intelligence Training: Harnessing AI While Managing Risk™
This third installment dramatizes a critical DRE parallel: an AI chatbot functions exactly like an unlicensed human assistant — meaning its output requires absolute broker oversight to avoid unlawful practice.
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Fact-Checking Your Ghostwriter
Artificial Intelligence Training: Harnessing AI While Managing Risk™
This second installment illustrates the need to carefully verify all AI-output, and depicts how fine-tuning your AI query with specific details about property’s features improves results.
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The AI apocalypse for real estate agents
AI is smoothing the way for more sellers to take on FSBOs — should agents be worried?
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The Ghost in the Machine: Of Flesh and Silicon
Artificial Intelligence Training: Harnessing AI While Managing Risk™
Our opening installment explores how licensees deploy AI in their daily practice today, alongside critical Department of Real Estate (DRE) guidance for staying compliant.
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Recoverable Transactional and Operating Expenses
This episode covers the calculation of the seller’s recoverable losses.
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Value Fluctuations During an Evolving Buyer’s Market
This episode covers the price-to-value difference and the buyer’s interference with the seller’s resale efforts.
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Mortgage interest rate smarts
Learn how mortgage loan originators determine the interest rate to offer mortgage applicants.
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Price-to-Value Losses in a Declining Market
This episode covers the seller’s recovery of the price-to-value loss through to the date of the buyer’s breach, whether the seller retains the property, remarkets it or resells it.
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Negative equity and foreclosure
When does strategic default make sense for a negative equity homeowner?
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The diligent effort for an opinion of value
WLearn the due diligence obligations required from a broker to a client when performing, drafting, delivering and maintaining records for a broker price opinion (BPO).
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Real estate runs with the labor force participation rate
Brokers who watch the jobs numbers along with the LFP rate will find the trends useful for forecasting their future brokerage conditions
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Rent-to-buy alternatives
Learn the contrasts between rent-to-buy arrangements and protective homeownership transactions structured by seasoned brokers.
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The Seller’s Recovery of a Monetary Loss
Learn how a buyer’s breach of a purchase agreement and escrow instructions establishes the seller’s legal right to recover actual money losses.
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The Federal Reserve’s impact on mortgage rates
Learn how the Fed is using their benchmark rate as a monetary policy tool
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Nonperformance Excused by Tardy Delivery
Watch how the seller’s failure to timely deliver documents excuses the buyer’s concurrent obligation to fund escrow.
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Designated officer missteps
This article presents three real-life scenarios in which each licensed brokerage corporation’s designated officer conducted unlawful activities which led to disciplinary and enforcement actions by the DRE.
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Recover Money, Not the Property
See the three categories of money losses a buyer may recover from a breaching seller in lieu of ownership of the property in this latest episode.
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