Licensing and Education | firsttuesday Journal

DRE Bulletin Digest: Fall 2025

by Amy Platero | Jan 7, 2026 | Fundamentals, Laws and Regulations, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 3

The Fall 2025 Real Estate Bulletin examines statistics from the California Department of Real Estate’s last fiscal year regarding their activities.

Due diligence demeanor in an agency

by Amy Platero | Dec 31, 2025 | Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Learn the due diligence effort a broker employed under an exclusive representation agreement owes their client-seller or buyer when acting on their behalf and implement the best effort conduct owed a client under a non-exclusive open representation.

Your fee agreement, a purchase agreement, the breaching buyer

by 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.

Letter to the Editor: Why does firsttuesday report availability and ASAP delivery of the TDS by a seller broker?

by 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.

Form-of-the-Week: Landlord and Seller Representation Agreement — Forms 106 and 102

by Amy Platero | Nov 19, 2025 | Buyers and Sellers, Forms, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Property Management, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

A broker employed by a landlord to market the property to tenants, screen tenants and negotiate lease terms in exchange for a fee uses a Landlord Representation Agreement — the leasing equivalent of a Seller Representation Agreement.

Acceptance of an offer

by Amy Platero | Nov 5, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Learn when a binding agreement to buy and sell real estate is formed and how to assist clients by preparing and submitting or responding to an offer to buy real estate.

An agreement starts as an offer

by Amy Platero | Oct 20, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Learn the contract elements comprising an enforceable agreement and how to manage the submission of an offer for the sale, lease or exchange of real estate.

Tax aspects advice

by Amy Platero | Oct 9, 2025 | Finance, Fundamentals, Investment, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Tax, Your Practice | 0

This article explains how to offer tax advice when appropriate, increasing an agent’s marketability by widening the range of services and advice offered to clients.

The breaching buyer’s responsibilities

by Amy Platero | Sep 22, 2025 | Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 9

Learn to determine when a buyer’s breach of a purchase agreement and escrow instructions entitles a seller to recover monetary losses and intelligently discuss a seller’s recovery of losses on a resale following their buyer’s breach of a purchase agreement.

The seller breaches the purchase agreement

by Amy Platero | Sep 9, 2025 | Buyer Representation, Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Learn to conduct a transaction as a buyer agent when a seller breaches the purchase agreement with a buyer, discuss remedies available to the buyer and review money losses the buyer may recover on a seller’s breach.

DRE as the enforcer at large steps up to the plate — as the umpire in chief

by Amy Platero | Sep 2, 2025 | Feature Articles, Features, Fundamentals, Laws and Regulations, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Our multimedia review of the DRE’s most common types of disciplinary actions they encounter.

“For Sale” sign ordinances and CC&Rs

by Amy Platero | Aug 26, 2025 | Buyers and Sellers, Fundamentals, Licensing and Education, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

Learn to properly display a “For Sale” sign on behalf of the seller to advertise the property for sale, understand when permission is needed to advertise a property within a common interest development (CID) and abide by the regulations concerning the placement of a “For Sale” sign on a private or public right-of-way or on a mobilehome.

DRE to host property management webinar

by Carrie B. Reyes | Aug 12, 2025 | Fair Housing, Licensing and Education, Property Management, Real Estate, Your Practice | 0

The DRE is partnering with the California Civil Rights Department to provide a free webinar series for property managers.

Transparency as symmetric marketing

by 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.