The Preliminary Title Report
The first episode in the new title insurance series introduces the critical role of title insurance in the California real estate market, and distinguishes preliminary title reports from abstracts of title.
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Counteroffer to a Purchase Agreement with a Fee Provision
A seller broker’s tortious interference with the fee arrangements between the buyer and the buyer broker is as imprudent as whacking a hornet’s nest.
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Illustrating the Fee-Math Involved in a Sale, Pt II
See how to use the Seller’s Net Sales Proceeds form and Buyer’s Acquisition Cost Sheet form to clearly present the financial consequences of a transaction to your seller or buyer.
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Illustrating the Fee-Math Involved in a Sale, Pt I
This episode depicts the new negotiating power buyer brokers use to protect their fee – and mitigate business risk.
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Putting the Representation Forms into Practice
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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firsttuesday Fire Special: Disclosure of Fire Risks
How to disclose the existence of a fire hazard due to the geographic location of a property.
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Buyer Representation Agreement Retainer Periods
Different buyer representation retainer period and extension rules apply when the buyer-client is an individual versus an entity. Watch the critical distinctions in our latest video.
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Introducing the Buyer Representation Agreement
The third episode in our new buyer representation video series covers the legislative introduction of the buyer representation agreement.
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An Industry-Wide MLS Subagency Misnomer
The second episode in our new buyer representation video series dramatizes the decades-long evolution of buyer representation in California.
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Price Fixing and Association Membership
Watch the first episode in our new video series depicting the seismic shift in the representation of buyers in 2025, cementing long-standing public policy.
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Mechanics of the Homestead Exemption
The final episode of our new video series illustrates the specific mechanics of automatic and recorded homesteads.
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Disclosure of a Prior Occupant’s Affliction and Death: firsttuesday Halloween Special
Grab your buttered popcorn for the two-part firsttuesday Halloween Special covering the disclosure of a death on a property. You’ll scream — you’ll laugh — you’ll learn!
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Automatic and Declared Homesteads
This is the second episode of our new video series covering homestead protections – help owners distinguish between the benefits afforded under an automatic homestead or a recorded declaration of homestead.
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The Owner’s Homestead Interest in Title
This is the first episode of our new video series covering how to advise a homeowner on whether they qualify to voluntarily sell and protect the equity in their residence from creditor seizure.
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Controlling the Vesting of One-Half
This is the final episode of our video series covering the right of survivorship among co-owners, and how a right-of-survivorship vesting is severed.
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Clear Title on Death by Affidavit
The seventh episode in our new video series covers how a deceased joint tenant’s interest in a property is cleared from title before the surviving joint tenant(s) sells, leases or encumbers the property as the sole owner.
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Severing Right-of-Survivorship Vestings
The sixth episode in our new video series covers how a co-owner vested as a joint tenant or as community property with the right of survivorship unilaterally severs the right of survivorship.
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Conveying Community Property
The fifth episode of our new video series covers the community property presumption for property acquired jointly by a married couple during the marriage.
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Creating a Joint Tenancy and a Joint Tenant’s Right of Survivorship
The fourth episode of our new video series covers creating a joint tenancy ownership in real estate.
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Joint Tenancy – The Four Unities
This video covers the unity of title, time, interest and possession under a joint tenancy vesting.
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