Real Estate Practice

This show opened with a discussion of why Purchase Offer Contracts are use and emphasized the importance of filling the contract out correctly.

This show continued the detailed explanation of the different parts of the purchase offer and covered most of the paragraphs in the purchase offer in detail.

This show began by covering the additional forms used for the Residential Property Purchase Contract. Some of the forms that were covered included Real Estate Disclosure Relationships, Estimated Buyer's Costs, and Buyers Inspection Advisory.

This show continued the detailed explanation of additional forms used in the purchase contract. Some of the forms included Counter Offer, Receipt for Reports and Contingency Removal, Notice of Seller to Perform, etc.

This show had a guest speaker by the name of Andy Dickson. Andy is a Real Estate/Home Inspector. Andy talked about issues like why home inspections are required and how to choose a home inspector. Andy also shares several examples of the type of defects found during a home inspection.

This show started with an explanation of why financing was so important to the real estate transaction. The show also covered mortgages vs. deeds of trust, costs of borrowing money, and the types of lending companies.

This show continued the detailed explanation of real estate financing and included topics like the secondary mortgage market, government-financing programs, qualifying the borrower and loan assumptions.

This show started with an overview of Escrow. Topics discussed were requirements of a valid escrow, how to open an escrow and ended with stressing the importance of financing in the escrow process.

This show continued the detailed explanation of the escrow process and covered proration, termite reports, fire insurance, and title insurance. Finally, it was stressed that your clients need to discuss how they want to hold tile e.g. joint tenants, tenancy in common, etc. before the close of escrow and to convey this information to their escrow officer.

This show started with an overview of the different types of Taxes Involving Real Estate. Topics discussed were property taxes, Proposition 13, property transfers that trigger tax reassessment and property tax exemptions.