Recent Legal Hottips


Recent Legal Hottips


Question:

An agent has a question about buying a property as a principal when the agent`s spouse will also be a buyer on the offer to purchase. Does the agent need to have a signed buyer agency agreement with the spouse and draft the offer as "Agent of Buyer" but also add language that the drafting agent is also a principal? Or does the agent strike all the choices on lines 1-2 and indicate the agent is drafting as a principal and not do buyer agency with the agent`s spouse? 

Answer:

The first step when a licensee is contemplating a personal transaction is to check company policy on the matter and follow that. Outside of any applicable company policy, the agent could draft the offer in either way described. ...

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RSK: First Hot Tip is about buying a property for yourself or your entity and receiving a buyer incentive rather than a commission...read it.

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