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A provision in the purchase agreement achieves the same objective as a separate addendum with paragraphs of legal jargon. The difference: our forms are engineered simple.
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Climate risk information hurt sales — so the MLS lobbied to take them down.
Your fee agreement, a purchase agreement, the breaching buyer
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A house without character: The paradox of California’s geography
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Down payment download: Now this is ownership
Competent brokers and agents educate buyer-clients on the acquisition process into down payment consequences, transaction costs and ownership expenditures.
Letter to the Editor: Why does firsttuesday report availability and ASAP delivery of the TDS by a seller broker?
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
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.
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