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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHmljOpbLnE 2020 FAIR HOUSING Video: NAR President discusses fair housing with NAR Fair Housing Policy Director Bryan Greene. NAR creates a FAIR HOUSING COMMITTEE. Posted by: Byron King on 2/3/20 (This information is only accurate as of 2/3/20. You must contact SCR for updates and changes to this information after 2/3/20 as laws and regulations… Continue Reading FAIR HOUSING: NAR Fair Housing Policy Director Bryan Greene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9HsFfGyci0 Posted by: Byron King on 2/3/20 (This information is only accurate as of 2/3/20. You must contact SCR for updates and changes to this information after 2/3/20 as laws and regulations may change over time. SCR 803-772-5206 or email info at screaltors.org)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNj8M97Pa4o This is an older 2014 video, but there is some information that is useful. Please read/view recent information on Fair Housing, service animals and emotional/support animals which are not pet animal and should not be treated as pet animals. Any animals which damage rental properties can cause the security deposit to be used to… Continue Reading FAIR HOUSING: 2014 NAR Video on Emotional/Support Animal

Alert: 6% purchaser should file ATI discount paperwork at tax assessor before January 30 each year. Recommend the 6% purchaser obtain legal/tax counsel asap. There is a court case on this issue that may alleviate this issue in the future, but not now. To learn more about 6% ATI assessable transfer of interest discount form,… Continue Reading 6% ATI January 30 Deadline

https://magazine.realtor/daily-news/2020/01/29/hud-offers-guidance-to-sniff-out-fake-assistance-animal-requests?AdobeAnalytics=ed_rid%3D56072%26om_mid%3D1909%7CRealtorMagNews_2020_01_29%26om_nytpe%3DREALTOR%20MAG%20NEWS HUD Offers Guidance to Sniff Out Fake Assistance Animal Requests Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Print January 29, 2020 Property owners have struggled with how to enforce no-pet policies on their properties with the growing number of renter requests for assistance animals. That’s why the housing market is welcoming the U.S. Department of Housing and… Continue Reading Assistance Animals: New HUD Guidance

Most of the Newsday fair housing issues focused on steering buyers to neighborhoods. Do you have some ideas on a form that perhaps the forms committee could draft in the near future to create a fair housing friendly form for buyers to complete upon signing a buyer agency/rep agreement whereby the buyer "steers" the buyer… Continue Reading Requesting Input on Fair Housing buyer induction form…

Real estate brokers are subject to a web of federal, state and local fair housing laws that are intended to eradicate discriminatory conduct in the sale or rental of dwellings and promote residential integration. The methods of enforcing these laws are varied and the penalties that can be exacted for a violation are severe. For… Continue Reading Fair Housing – NAR Provides Free Download

2020 SCR Professional Standards Committee Chair Lisa Alexanderand 2019 SCR Professional Standards Committee Chair John Smith Watch this video where these REALTOR® leaders discuss Article 16 that prohibits interfering in agency relationships/agreements aka "poaching" other REALTORS®'s clients. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Bq0ljGGIs Posted by: Byron King on 1/15/20 (This information is only accurate as of 1/15/20. You must contact… Continue Reading PROFESSIONALISM PROFESSIONALISM PROFESSIONALISM

Article 16 – REALTORS® shall not engage in any practice or take any action inconsistent with exclusive representation or exclusive brokerage relationship agreements that other REALTORS® have with clients. Client A gave a 180-day exclusive right to sell listing of a commercial property to REALTOR® B, specifying that no “for sale” sign was to be… Continue Reading Ethics Case 16-2

The entire surveillance issue incorporates issues arising from several laws already on the books that were not specifically drafted to address modern home security devices but arguably might be applied with criminal/lawsuit consequences for the seller, licensee, and brokerage (e.g., wiretapping, peeping Tom, eavesdropping, other). There is a risk for real estate licensees to communicate… Continue Reading Surveillance in Listings (Audio/Video)