Please let SCR know if you are experiencing any virus related issues with your real estate practice (e.g., sales, property management) so SCR can help educate the membership on workarounds or issues to consider. Examples of potential issues: Closings? Travel restrictions? Law firm practices? Quarantines? Leases expiring. Cleaning? Showings? Disclosure? South Carolina has psychological affected/impact/stigma [...]
SCR Legal's Top Ten Open House Risks/Issues: 1. Safety. Remove all trip/slip/fall hazards. Provide adequate lighting (e.g., windows, electric lights). Park so that you are not blocked in the driveway. Walk so that you are not blocked in a room or basement or upper floor without a clear escape route. Upon arriving quickly alert the [...]
https://www.nar.realtor/coronavirus-a-guide-for-realtors NAR says that you can ask about travel and signs of respiratory illness and refuse to drive consumers who may be at high risk for coronavirus due to travel or symptoms of respiratory illness but do this uniformly for all consumers. Example: NAR says that the coronavirus originated in China but do not violate [...]
Coronavirus Guidance for Associations and Members NAR is closely monitoring the coronavirus situation. Based on questions from association executives, we have formulated guidance for associations on staff travel, workplace precautions, meetings/events, and more. You can access the guidance here: https://www.nar.realtor/ae/coronavirus-a-guide-for-realtor-associations In addition, NAR is providing guidance for REALTORS® for use in their day-to-day business, including [...]
The SCR230 Residential Property Condition Disclosure Statement RPCDS can be a REALTORS® best risk management strategy. For risk management reasons, brokerages can always attempt to get the SCR230 into the transaction via the listing agreement and via the purchase agreement so that the SCR230 is used in transactions. https://screaltors.org/wp-content/uploads/Forms/230.pdf Recently this hypothetical was presented to [...]
If/when your MLS adopts a version of NAR's clear cooperation policy then you must input your listing into the MLS and you have one business day to input your listing into MLS unless you are only communicating your listing internally to your brokerage as an office exclusive. Sellers will no longer be able to simultaneously [...]
Risk management, consider evaluating the criminal conviction after the other rental evaluation (e.g., finances, rental history). The potential tenant might be rejected on financial and rental history without the need to take on the potential fair housing risks that can arise from rejecting on felony conviction. Video on this issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYIxNwXhos If asking a potential [...]
The 2020 SCR Housing Opportunity Committee (HOC) is seeking ideas on ways that SCR can help address homelessness in SC. SCR HOC member Peggy Hill mentioned that WUAR will host Rebuild Anderson on May 12th at the WUAR offices. This organization fundraises to repair low-income homes which helps the low-income homeowner remain in their home [...]
For quality assurance reasons and because lawyers can argue what the English words in the SCR forms mean so a translation would allow lawyers to argue even more in court, the SCR standard forms committee does not produce non-English language forms as a risk management strategy. SCR surveyed other states in the USA and no [...]
We are excited to announce the addition of two free webinars taking place in March 2020. Registration link can be found in the attached announcement or by clicking this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBWSbnoFS4edNP495ftMVgrJpuXL4MpjQvdc9UcY3cWw_ePw/viewform March 19, 2020 at 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time Inspecting Radon Mitigation Systems Presenter: Bruce Snead, Director of Engineering Extension at Kansas [...]