E-notary companies are out there....can we close a sale with one now? There still needs to be at least one personal interaction with a stranger to be able to finance the purchase of a house in San Diego County, says the boss at First American Title today: Good morning...
Kayla flew home from Manhattan this morning on Delta - there were only 20 people on the plane! Her Douglas Elliman offices are closed through March 31st and probably longer. Hopefully she didn't bring the bug back with her, but it's better than her catching it there...
The California Association of Realtors published their coronavirus addendum/amendment today. Those with an existing contract aren't obligated to sign it, but they mentioned the 'Force Majeure Clause', which is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both...
Glad to see the NAR promoting this point - considering what other agents think of you: David Weldon empathized with his client’s growing desperation to sell her home, a three-bedroom house in Southern California’s Riverside County. But he was uncomfortable about her...
I just had the best decade of my life! It didn't start out that way, though. We trudged into 2010 trying to survive a dreary, depressed real estate market. But thanks to Ben Bernanke, who engineered the greatest soft landing in history, the rules were changed and...
The new C.A.R. forms for 2020 are available, and the most interesting is the MLS-exclusion form in light of the NAR Clear Cooperation policy that begins on May 1st. Last year I asked the C.A.R. lead attorney about their stand on Coming-Soon and off-market listings,...
Whether you move there or just buy rental properties, these are NAR's hotspots: In offering its list, NAR tracked ongoing data including domestic migration, housing affordability for new residents, consistent job growth relative to the national average, population age...
Compass intends to comply with NAR's Clear Cooperation Policy MLS 8.0. In addition, the corporate staff will work the MLS to see if we can create a Coming Soon section, like many other areas are doing. The 8.0 policy legitimizes the Coming Soon marketing, and allows...
Kayla sent this in:
The MLS Statement 8.0 Clear Cooperation Policy is 'a lightweight, middle-of-the-road policy that will just make the problem worse' because it doesn't go far enough. It's so full of holes that it will only exacerbate the problem, and by the time they figure it out, it...
