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Fair Housing: Potential Tenants with Felony Convictions

2020-02-27T13:08:17-05:00February 27th, 2020|Legal FAQs|

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… Continue Reading Fair Housing: Potential Tenants with Felony Convictions

Learn From the Pros: Build a Successful Real Estate Business

2020-02-26T17:06:53-05:00February 26th, 2020|NAR|

Are you looking for sage advice from an industry veteran on how to grow your business? YPN Lounge blogger and real estate coach Lee Davenport, PhD, shares her real estate journey and lessons learned along the way in her recent one-on-one interview with Kyle Eaves, an agent with Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro… Continue Reading Learn From the Pros: Build a Successful Real Estate Business

January 2020 Existing-Home Sales

2020-02-25T12:53:57-05:00February 25th, 2020|NAR|

January 2020 Existing-Home Sales Housing market activity this January declined 1.3% from December 2019, but January’s sales of existing homes improved 9.6 % from January 2019.February 25, 2020By: Michael Hyman Powered by WPeMatico

Existing-Home Sales Trends, 2009 – 2019

2020-02-21T12:57:31-05:00February 21st, 2020|NAR|

Existing-Home Sales Trends, 2009 – 2019 NAR produces monthly existing home sales, median sales prices, and inventory figures. NAR looks at the market in the last 10 years, from 2009–2019.February 21, 2020By: Michael Hyman Powered by WPeMatico

REALTORS(R) Fight Homelessness

2020-02-21T10:17:59-05:00February 21st, 2020|Legal FAQs|

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… Continue Reading REALTORS(R) Fight Homelessness

Spanish Forms, Chinese, Korean, German, French, Other Languages

2020-02-21T09:36:56-05:00February 21st, 2020|Legal FAQs|

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… Continue Reading Spanish Forms, Chinese, Korean, German, French, Other Languages

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