Client Relations
- Our firm’s Web site contains the Information About Brokerage Services form (TAR 2501), which can be read and downloaded by anyone visiting the site. If we meet with a prospective buyer at one of our listed homes, and the buyer says that he found the home on our Web site and read the form while on the site, are we still required to give him a copy of the form when we meet him for the first time at the listed home? (1 minuteread)
- Does the law require a broker to have a written representation agreement to act as someone’s agent? (1 minuteread)
- I’m changing brokers and I have several buyer clients who’ve signed buyer-representation agreements. Can I take these buyers with me to my new broker? (1 minuteread)
- I understand that it’s important to have a written representation agreement when representing a buyer and that it’s required that a broker have a written agreement signed by the person agreeing to pay a commission to enforce this right against a client. But why should I be concerned about this fee issue, since in my market the seller’s agent almost always pays the cooperating broker’s fee under the MLS residential listings? (1 minuteread)
- My client wants to make an offer on a for-sale-by-owner property. What is the best way to approach the seller with the offer and make sure I receive my fee from the seller? (1 minuteread)
- Does a link to the Information About Brokerage Services form in my email signature block count as electronic delivery? (1 minuteread)
- Does providing the Information About Brokerage Services form meet The Real Estate License Act’s requirements to disclose agency? (1 minuteread)
