Annual assessment increase for DFPI mortgage licensees
Declining DFPI licensee numbers, and the fees they charge, means the remaining individuals need to pick up the slack — with their wallets.
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Category: Laws and Regulations
The breaching buyer’s responsibilities
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.
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Increased protections for small commercial tenants
A qualified commercial tenant receives tenant protections, including a longer period of time for notice of an increase in rent and termination of tenancy, more documentation in a change of building operating costs charged the tenant and translation requirements when negotiating a lease agreement.
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FARM: Applying for a mortgage?
Use this firsttuesday FARM Letter in your marketing. For a list of all our FARM letter templates...
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The seller breaches the purchase agreement
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.
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DRE as the enforcer at large steps up to the plate — as the umpire in chief
Our multimedia review of the DRE’s most common types of disciplinary actions they encounter.
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Buy an historic home, get a Mills Act subsidy
An owner or buyer of historic property in need of TLC can reduce their property tax by entering into a restoration and property tax agreement, called a Mills Act subsidy.
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FARM: 10 tips for a successful yard sale
Use this firsttuesday FARM Letter in your marketing. To request a FARM letter topic, or to see a...
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“For Sale” sign ordinances and CC&Rs
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.
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DRE to host property management webinar
The DRE is partnering with the California Civil Rights Department to provide a free webinar series for property managers.
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Disclosure checklist in sales and leasing
Here, we examine the public policy of symmetric awareness of a property’s fundamentals by the seller and buyer in all real estate transactions.
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Transparency as symmetric marketing
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.
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The safety clause for residuals from due diligence efforts
Learn to appreciate a safety clause provision in exclusive representation agreements as assurance a fee is earned after expiration when your client sells or buys due to your efforts during the employment.
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Mobilehome park owners must be in good legal standing to evict tenants or raise rents
Mobilehome parks are required to be registered and titled
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FARM: Do’s and don’ts for staging your home
Use this firsttuesday FARM Letter in your marketing. For a list of all our FARM letter templates...
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Fees for withdrawal or termination of a representation agreement
Learn to protect your broker’s right to collect a fee when a seller-client removes their property from the market or cancels the representation agreement.
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Is percolating groundwater which seeps into an aquifer conveyed with the land when a mortgage holder forecloses on a parcel of real estate?
Sandton Agriculture Investments III, LLC v. 4-S Ranch Partners, LLC
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The exclusive employment obligations of a broker
Learn the obligations of a seller and their broker under an exclusive seller representation agreement and whether a buyer is ready, willing and able to buy when submitting an offer to purchase.
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DRE Bulletin Digest: Spring 2025
The DRE’s Real Estate Bulletin informs licensees on rules of conduct, changing legislation and new licensing exams, which we digest to help you keep your practice and conversations current.
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The MLS environment
Review the historical and current practice of a buyer broker to earn and be paid their fee on a transaction when representing a buyer-client.
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