Health care practitioners for years have documented evidence that animals, particularly dogs can benefit impaired people. Examples are seeing-eye dogs, dogs for the hearing impaired and most recently, “companion” dogs that provide therapeutic benefits to people who are emotionally or…
CAR has announced that the new RPA will be released in November of 2014. There are several substantive changes to the form. However, there are six (6) changes that will concern real estate agents and brokers the most: 1. All…
In California, the Bureau of Real Estate and California law permits a licensed real estate brokerage to pay a referral fee for a real estate transaction to a person not licensed by the Bureau of Real Estate, only if the…
This post is in response to the Louisiana New Home Warranty Act, La. R.S. 9:3141 et seq., and the mandatory Louisiana Real Estate Commission (LREC) property disclosure form. Case: Stutts v. Melton, 2013-0557 (La. 10/15/13), 130 So. 3d 808, 810, reh'g…
In Colorado, professional property managers are required to have a real estate license. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-61-101(2)(a)&(b); see also CP 27 (Commission Position on the Performance of Residential Leasing Property Management Functions Adopted August 1998 – Revised August 2013).…
In recent months, I have handled an increasing number of risk management inquiries for real estate agents and brokers who are property managers for property owners who rent out residential properties. The most common disagreement between landlords and tenants for…
If being a real estate broker or salesperson acting in a dual agent capacity was not already risky enough, the California Court of Appeal just made it even more dicey. Real estate brokers and associate licensees know that the risk…
Issue – Solar Power Systems are Fixtures When we think of fixtures that are included in the sale of a property, it is likely that some Brokers and Agents have not considered the application of the modern day solar power…
