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All SCR members have access to FOREWARN. Try to find contact information on the owners/sellers. FOREWARN has names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. HOA has contact information on the owners/seller. Perhaps neighbors have contact information on the owners/sellers. Tax records have mail addresses and names. Quickly contact the owners/sellers via other various lanes of communication… Continue Reading Fake Sellers Land Sales Scammers

Time is critical for recovery...with the bank and FBI. Call early and often. https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices SCR610 wire fraud form, consider using to educate consumers and agents and staff and paralegals and lawyers and lenders. https://screaltors.org/wp-content/uploads/Forms/610.pdf Consider regularly and properly changing all passwords. Using a two step authenticator (e.g., text code) login can help. Try to keep… Continue Reading Wire Fraud Reminder

https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/technology/you-can-stop-ai-from-spreading-false-real-estate-info?utm_term=A535F674-1FE5-4DE7-86BF-2B71C40DD9BA&utm_campaign=3BFA9068-DFBC-477B-BC94-C168B9A999F1&nwsltr=navnar&utm_content=61A385D1-5680-4DAE-AD90-9AC99EB4219E Posted by: Byron King on 03/08/23 (This information is only accurate as of 03/08/23. You must contact SCR for updates and changes to this information after 03/08/23 as laws and regulations may change over time. SCR 803-772-5206 or email info at screaltors.org or email byron at screaltors.org) This information is not legal advice. This… Continue Reading NAR ON AI IN RE

https://www.scbar.org/public/get-legal-help/common-legal-topics/domestic-violence/ Posted by: Byron King on 03/08/23 (This information is only accurate as of 03/08/23. You must contact SCR for updates and changes to this information after 03/08/23 as laws and regulations may change over time. SCR 803-772-5206 or email info at screaltors.org or email byron at screaltors.org) This information is not legal advice. This… Continue Reading Domestic Violence

How can the seller limit the amount of dollars that the seller agrees to pay for the buyer's transaction costs? The hotline has been getting this question, the seller can counter offer $0 or a lower number of dollars in the blank (e.g., At Closing, Seller will pay Buyer's transaction costs not to exceed $… Continue Reading Seller’s Transaction Costs in SCR310

There are some tragic stories appearing online about fentanyl deaths in real estate properties (e.g., fentanyl material inadvertently/intentionally left behind to be discovered/encountered, fentanyl production via a clandestine laboratory in rental property, drug use, accidental contact/ingestion). ...see link below regarding potential legal actions regarding a toddler's death that experts believe was fentanyl caused by accidental… Continue Reading Fentanyl Opioids Risk Management, Issues, Employees, Contractors, Real Estate

SCREC LLR dual agency agreement: https://screaltors.org/wp-content/uploads/Forms/115.pdf Buyer signs the buyer agency agreement and SCR115 as their offer is developed when the brokerage has the listing agency too. e.g., SCR130/135 are typical buyer agency agreements. https://screaltors.org/wp-content/uploads/Forms/130.pdf https://screaltors.org/wp-content/uploads/Forms/135.pdf Example: SCR115 goes to the listing agent with the offer (e.g., SCR310). The seller signs the SCR115 prior to… Continue Reading SCR115 LLR SCREC Dual Agency Form