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12 Questions to Ask Your Real Estate Agent

PennyMac

Many of them have had great training and even specialized experience working for seasoned Realtors®. Find an agent who really understands the different contracts you need and how to properly fill them out, the legal obligations you’ll run into, and the financial side of the business. What marketing tools will you use to help me?

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Hit list: Inside CoStar’s all-out war against Zillow

Housing Wire

websites for office space — LoopNet , and residential rentals — Apartments.com , generating revenue from subscriptions by landlords and commercial brokers. In a 2018 article, The Real Deal chronicled CoStar’s legal war waged against Xceligent , once CoStar’s biggest rival for commercial property listings.

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Celebrate Central Ohio Real Estate During Fair Housing Month [2021]

The Robert Weiler Company

In addition to the above-protected classes, the Ohio Fair Housing Law (Ohio Revised Code Section 4112) includes legal protection based on ancestry and military status. Ohio Realtors have a responsibility to uphold this law. Encourage your realtors to distribute publications about fair housing. How Can You Get Involved?

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Financing proves an obstacle for ADUs

Housing Wire

Accessory dwelling units are increasingly legal. housing shortage that the National Association of Realtors pegged at 5.5 How to minimize tenant turnover using online property management tools. Turnover is a huge expense for landlords and property managers across the world. ADUs were legalized statewide in 2017.

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HUD plans to restore 2013 version of discrimination rule

Housing Wire

” In other words, the agency said the 2020 update to the Fair Housing Act would have made it harder for those seeking justice to meet the legal threshold for proving unintentional discrimination. ” Prior to the effective date of the 2020 rule, the U.S. The use of disparate impact was challenged all the way up to the U.S.

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