Peter Boutell: Columnist – Santa Ana Sentinel; Owner: Santa Cruz Home Finance, Santa Cruz; DGS MLO Student Impound Accounts Impound accounts are sometimes referred to as “escrow” accounts and refer to the funds that are held on the borrower’s behalf as a part of the lender’s service. A borrower is said to have an impound […]
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By Summer Goralik: Former DRE Investigator, Lecturer, Author; Real Estate Compliance Consultant; Ethics Student Fundamentals of Broker Supervision In an effort to stay true to my own goals this year, I am writing a follow-up piece to my recent post on “DRE Compliance Goals”. That post, which you can read by clicking here, https://www.expertdrecompliance.com/blog/dre-compliance-goals […]
Dennis Smith: Author, Chef, Financier; Co-Owner/Broker at Stratis Financial, Huntington Beach; MLO Student Question of the Week Why is mortgage insurance a good thing? Answer Last week in the Weekly Rate & Mortgage Update we discussed if home buyers should wait until they have 20% for down payment before purchasing (you can read the WR&MU, […]
Jeff Lazerson: Columnist at Orange County Register and other Southern California News Group; Owner Mortgage Grader, Aliso Viejo; MLO Student You can deduct 20 percent of your real estate rental profits right off the top before calculating your taxes. Starting with your 2018 federal tax return filing, and so long as you meet certain criteria, […]
Now that the market has slowed a bit – i.e. returned to normal— contingency offers are more common and, I would argue, more palatable than they have been during the past few years. By contingency offer I mean an offer to purchase that comes from a buyer who still has to sell his house […]
Many times, in the course of reviewing transaction files, I will read that an agent has recommended to the buyer that he or she should have the home inspected by a licensed home inspector. While one has to appreciate the earnestness of such advice, it is nonetheless at least a trifle amusing. This is because […]
Assembly Bill 2018 (Bocanegra) is quickly working its way through the California legislature in Sacramento. The bill deals with the use of team names and fictitious business names in the real estate business. The bill is the result of collaborative work by The California Association of Realtors® (CAR) and The California Bureau of Real Estate […]
California’s standard Residential Purchase Agreement (RPA), produced by the California Association of Realtors® (CAR) is undergoing a major revamping. While the changes being made do not represent a radical transformation or restructuring of the nature of the agreement, there are still many, many changes. Some of them are only slight alterations in wording; others are […]
The Summer 2014 issue of the Real Estate Bulletin, produced by the California Bureau of Real Estate, announces that the Bureau has finalized its authority to issue citations and assess fines without first going through a lengthy, and sometimes expensive, process of administrative hearings. The details of the “cite and fine” program can be found […]
