Check Your Understanding-Answers
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When must a licensee provide an agency disclosure to a prospective client?
The listing agent must provide the disclosure to the seller prior to securing the listing agreement.
The selling agent must provide the disclosure to the seller "as soon as practicable" prior to presenting a purchase offer.
The selling agent must provide the disclosure to the buyer" as soon as practicable" prior to the execution of the buyer's offer to purchase.
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What is the Real Estate Transfer Disclosure Statement and who is responsible for providing it?
It is a statement that describes the condition of the property in detail. The seller must complete it, sign it and provide it to the buyer, but there is a section on page three of the form that the seller's agent (if there is one) must complete and sign.
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Agent Jim needs to do a visual inspection of his listing. What kinds of things should he be looking for?
Structural defects, deterioration, water damage and insect damage.
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Why should agent Grace give her client a Combined Hazards Book?
This book contains three booklets which meet the seller's and agent's requirements for disclosure of earthquake hazards, lead-based paint and other environmental hazards.
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