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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Don't Discriminate. That is easier said than done many times. It is human nature to judge people based on their appearance, their clothing, their vocabulary, their accent, their vehicle, their job, their income, their credit score. But, REALTORS® are held to a higher ethical standard than human nature. REALTOR® ethics article 10: Prohibits discrimination in [...]

https://www.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/NAR-CEAM-2020.pdf Posted by: Byron King on 1/7/20 (This information is only accurate as of 1/7/20. You must contact SCR for updates and changes to this information after 1/7/20 as laws and regulations may change over time. SCR 803-772-5206 or email info at screaltors.org)

https://www.nar.realtor/about-nar/governing-documents/code-of-ethics/2020-code-of-ethics-standards-of-practice Posted by: Byron King on 1/7/20 (This information is only accurate as of 1/7/20. You must contact SCR for updates and changes to this information after 1/7/20 as laws and regulations may change over time. SCR 803-772-5206 or email info at screaltors.org)

https://ziplogix.com/ziplogix-academy/ Learn online. Live, recorded training, instructors. Posted by: Byron King on 1/6/20 (This information is only accurate as of 1/6/20. You must contact SCR for updates and changes to this information after 1/6/20 as laws and regulations may change over time. SCR 803-772-5206 or email info at screaltors.org)