Best of the Hotline: Price Escalation Addendum
The Price Escalation Addendum (Form PEA) is one of the most misunderstood in the PAR forms library. You should review PAR’s guidelines for the form before using it, but let’s review a couple of the most common questions/complaints/misconceptions that we hear on the PAR Legal Hotline.
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So You Didn’t Renew Your Real Estate License
If your license is not renewed, it is expire. If your license is expired, you cannot practice real estate – it’s illegal.
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Are You There, Facebook? It’s Me, Realtor®
PAR handled over 8,000 tickets in our first year of answering hotline calls in-house – and plenty more in casual conversations or presentations made to local associations. But Realtors® have plenty of questions that get asked in other arenas and never make it to the hotline. How do I know? Because we see lots of […]
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How Gov. Wolf’s New Restrictions Impact Real Estate
What does Gov. Wolf’s latest restrictions mean for Realtors®?
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Open Houses, Best Practices and Forms, Oh My!
As some of Pennsylvania’s most populous counties move into the green phase of reopening, the PAR Legal Hotline is getting another wave of green-phase questions.
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PAR Obtains More Clarification on State Guidance for Business Restrictions
PAR has a few updates for you today, based on newly updated general business guidance and recent conversations with the administration.
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It’s Somewhat Easier Being Green
In the plan to reopen Pennsylvania, 18 counties move into the green phase today, but even if it looks like certain rules are going away, they really aren’t – at least not completely.
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All Real Estate In Pennsylvania Reopened With New Guidance
On May 19, the Wolf administration issued new statewide real estate guidance that applies to all real estate transactions in Pennsylvania. Though it’s definitely not “business as usual” for Realtors®, this new guidance opens up the industry with uniform rules across all markets and eliminates much of the confusing and contradictory information that had been put out in previous documents.
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Debunking Rumors Based on Legal Hotline Questions
We’ve heard several issues from members in the past several days, which prompted me to produce a video on Monday. Here is a brief summary of some of the issues you need to be aware of: A new phone call/email scam requesting social security numbers. A few members report that they’ve received phone calls or emails from individuals claiming […]
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Signed Senate Bill 841 Has Three Real Estate-Related Issues
Gov. Tom Wolf signed Senate Bill 841 yesterday and is effective immediately. Though most of the bill is on different topics, it contains three elements relevant to real estate.
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