Articles & FAQs

articles categorized by subjects - subjects alphabetized

ADVERTISING 

(1) November 1, 2021

• Click here to read: "FAQ:Lotteries"

(2) July 6, 2021

• Click here to read: "Texting Traps: Legally using texting as a marketing tool"

(3) October 7, 2019

• Click here to read: "Inducements in Advertising"

(4) 2019

•  Nicknames and Education - New Laws

(5) September 2019

•  LIL FAQs on advertising issues

(6) December 2014

• Click here to read: "Advertising Issues"

AGENCY

(1) May 2, 2022

• Unintentional Agency: Highway to the Danger Zone!

CE/LICENSING

New Licensing Requirements - Nevada Real Estate Division's Informational Bulletin #36: Regulation Changes Per NAC 645 

Informational Bulletin 36 - Regulation Changes Per NAC 645 (d15k2d11r6t6rl.cloudfront.net)

(1) May 6, 2022

• LEGAL: Licensing, laying out out broker and PM requirements

(2) June 21, 2021

• LEGAL: Playing well with others, working with out-of-state brokers

(3) Jan. 12, 2021

• LEGAL: MLS representations not in contact & 65+ CE requirements

(4) November 9, 2020

• LEGAL: FAQ on business license requirements

(5) 

• Nicknames and Education - New Laws

CIC

(1) March 8, 2022

• Riddled by Resales

(2) November 15, 2021

• Part II: How to Count Days in Contracts & Resales

(3) November 9, 2021

• Part I: Counting Days

(4) March 16, 2021

• FAQs: Resale Packages, Mailbox Rule, and Marijuana

(5) August 24, 2020

• LEGAL FAQ: Private transfer fee obligation

CONTRACTS

(1) January 18, 2022

• Cash Credits: Seller Home Repair Credits at Closing and Beyond!

(2) December 6, 2021

• What just happened: Recission of counter offers

(3) November 15, 2021

• Part II: How to Count Days in Contracts & Resales

(4) November 9, 2021

• Part I: Counting Days

(5) Oct. 11, 2021

• Signing off: Proper signatories to contracts

(6) Sept. 20, 2021

• Special Edition: Wild West Water Rights

(7) August 2, 2021

• Different Contracts Dilemma: Offers presented on unfamiliar forms

(8) June 14, 2021

• Flunked out of financing: What about owner-financed contracts?

(9) May 24, 2021

• Leaseback Lunacy? Leaseback at Your Own Risk!

(10) May 14, 2021

• No Praise for Failure to Appraise: Offer Tactics Regarding Purchase Price

(11) April 26, 2021

• How to properly reject contracts

(12) April 5, 2021

• LEGAL FAQ: Waiving contingencies in multiple-offer environment

(13) March 16, 2021

• FAQs: Resale Packages, Mailbox Rule, and Marijuana
  

(14) March 30, 2021

• LEGAL: FAQ for Multiple Offers on Multiple Properties

(15) Jan. 12, 2021

• LEGAL: MLS representations not in contact & 65+ CE requirements

(16) September 21, 2020

• LEGAL: Breaking brokerage agreements and firing a difficult client

(17) August 18, 2020

• LEGAL: "Acceleration Clause - Legal or not"

(18) April 27, 2020

• Handle with care – Disclosing details in multiple-offer situations

COMMISSIONS

(1) Oct. 15, 2018

• Click here to read: "Attorneys collecting commissions?"

(2)

• What to do if your broker does not pay your commission

COVID-19 NEWS

(1) June 7, 2021 

• Statewide eviction moratorium expires; Landlord rental assistance available

(2) May 3, 2021 (Originally released 6/1/20)

• UPDATE: Guidance on the Operation of Real Estate Offices 

(3) Dec. 15, 2020

• UPDATE: New Guidance on eviction moratorium back in place through 3/31

(4) November 19, 2020

• LEGAL: UPDATE on Guidance on Tenant-Occupied Inspections in Contract or Lease

(5) September 30, 2020

• LEGAL: Governor updates Open House guidel

(6) August 24, 2020

• LEGAL: Income source discrimination and guidance on Clark Co. ordinance

(7) August 4, 2020 (Updated, originally released 6/9/20)

• Click here to read: Guidance on Inspections, Appraisals for Tenant-Occupied Homes in Contract

(8) August 3, 2020

• LEGAL: "My Seller has COVID?"

(9) August 3, 2020

• FAQs from NVR Eviction Moratorium 7/14 Webinar

(10) July 13, 2020

• FAQs from NVR Eviction Moratorium 7/1 Webinar

(11) June 29, 2020

• UPDATED GUIDANCE- Open House and In-Person Showings Guidance- Governor’s Directive

(12) June 28, 2020

• LEGAL: Eviction Moratorium- Governor's Directive on Phased Lifting

(13) June 26, 2020

• Guidance on the Operation of Real Estate Offices

(14) Updated June 25, 2020

• Updated Open House Guidance on Governor’s Phase 2 Reopening

(15) June 15, 2020

• Click here to read: FAQs on fair housing, Covid-19

(16) May 27, 2020

• Click here to read: Updated open house info following Governor's Director 5/27

(17) April 22, 2020

• Click here to read: FAQs focused on risk management during coronavirus era

(18) 

• Click here to read: Information for Property Managers regarding the Lease and COVID-19

(19) March 20, 2020

• Click here to read: "Landlord's Right to Enter- A Special Legal Topic"

DISCLOSURE

(1) February 8, 2022

• Legal Information Line: FAQs, clarifying Consent To Act form

(2) January 18, 2022

• Cash Credits: Seller Home Repair Credits at Closing and Beyond!

(3) Nov. 29, 2021

• Dealing with deficient disclosures: Incomplete SRPD

(4) Nov. 15, 2021

• Did you know? SRPD exemption for trustees

(5) Sept. 20, 2021

• Special Edition: Wild West Water Rights

(6) July 17, 2021

• LEGAL: Required or strongly encouraged, what forms are mandatory?

(7) May 10, 2021

• LEGAL FAQS: SRPD form

(8) November 16, 2020

• LEGAL: FAQ on sharing home inspection reports

(9) February 24, 2020

• Click here to read: "Peeping, Eavesdropping & Expectations of Privacy in Listed & Rental Properties"

(10) October, 21, 2019

• Click here to read: "LEGAL: Flood Insurance and Related Disclosures"

(11) July 1, 2019

• Click here to read: "As Is - What does this really mean?"

EARNEST MONEY

(1) November 2, 2020

• LEGAL: FAQ on implications of EMD disputes on relisting a property

(2) August 2017

• LEGAL FAQs: Earnest Money Deposits
  

LEGISLATION 

(1) August 26, 2021

• LEGAL: Raising Rent and the new 60-day notice law

(2) July 26, 2021

• LEGAL: 3 Days  Grace, new late fee law

(3) Feb. 16, 2021

• LEGAL: NAC 645 Regulation Changes

(4) 

• Nicknames and Education - New Laws

(5) July, 29, 2019

• Click here to read: "Landlord/Tenant and Evictions - New Laws"

MISC

(1) March 21, 2022

• What's new, highlighting changes in Nevada's Law & Reference Guide

(2) Jan. 10, 2022

• Puzzled by Probate - Part II

(3) Jan. 3, 2022

• Puzzled by Probate - Part I

(4) Dec.15, 2021

• LIL rundown of NAR's Annual Conference

(5) Sept. 20, 2021

• Special Edition: Wild West Water Rights

(6) April 19, 2021

• LEGAL FAQs: Wearing Multiple Hats (Agent & Executor) and Unlicensed Assistants

(7) January 13, 2020

• Click here to read: "Business and email compromise: Think twice before clicking send"

(8) January 13, 2020

• Click here to read: "FAQ: Escrow and title companies"

(9) November, 18, 2019

• Click here to read: "Put a cap on it! - Tax Cap / Abatement Information"

(10) November, 4, 2019

• Click here to read: "Wood-burning devices: Don't let your next deal get toasted"

(11) April, 2019

• LEGAL: Working with a handyman

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

(1) April 4, 2022

• LEGAL: Property Management, 4 Key Inquiries

(2) Feb. 7, 2022

• LEGAL: Property Management Edition, Managing Marijuana Smokers

(3) January 31, 2022

• LEGAL: Part II Property management activities and lease agreements

(4) January 24, 2022

• LEGAL: Part I Activities that require a property management permit

(5) November 1, 2021

• LEGAL: Two-Part Special: Property Management - Mandating vaccines, etc.

(6) October 26, 2021

• LEGAL: Two-Part Special: Property Management - Deceased Tenant

(7) August 26, 2021

• LEGAL: Rising Rents: Landlords and Tenants Working Together

(8) August 26, 2021

• LEGAL: Raising Rent and the new 60-day notice law

(9) July 26, 2021

• LEGAL: 3 Days  Grace, new late fee law

(10) June 4, 2021

• Are we maxed out? -- Residential occupancy limits

(11) May 28, 2021

• Do you dare share? Credit reports and rental docs

(12) May 24, 2021

• Leaseback Lunacy? Leaseback at Your Own Risk!

(13) May 5, 2020

• Click here to read: Sound the alarm! Carbon Monoxide detectors and rentals

(14) July, 29, 2019

• Click here to read: "Landlord/Tenant and Evictions - New Laws"

(15) April, 2019

• LEGAL: Working with a handyman

(16) October, 2015

• LEGAL: Service and emotional support animals