Articles & FAQs

articles categorized by subjects - subjects alphabetized

ADVERTISING 

(1) November 1, 2021

• Click here to read: "FAQ:Lotteries"

(2) July 19, 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) September 30, 2019

• Click here to read: "Advertising Issues"

(5)

•  Nicknames and Education - New Laws

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) June 21, 2021

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

(2) Jan. 12, 2021

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

(3) November 9, 2020

• LEGAL: FAQ on business license requirements

(4) 

• Nicknames and Education - New Laws

CIC

(1) November 9, 2021

• Part I: Counting Days

(2) March 16, 2021

• FAQs: Resale Packages, Mailbox Rule, and Marijuana

(3) August 24, 2020

• LEGAL FAQ: Private transfer fee obligation

CONTRACTS

(1) November 9, 2021

• Part I: Counting Days

(2) Oct. 11, 2021

• Signing off: Proper signatories to contracts

(3) Sept. 20, 2021

• Special Edition: Wild West Water Rights

(4) August 2, 2021

• Different Contracts Dilemma: Offers presented on unfamiliar forms

(5) June 14, 2021

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

(6) May 24, 2021

• Leaseback Lunacy? Leaseback at Your Own Risk!

(7) May 14, 2021

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

(8) April 26, 2021

• How to properly reject contracts

(9) April 5, 2021

• LEGAL FAQ: Waiving contingencies in multiple-offer environment

(10) March 16, 2021

• FAQs: Resale Packages, Mailbox Rule, and Marijuana
  

(11) March 30, 2021

• LEGAL: FAQ for Multiple Offers on Multiple Properties

(12) August 18, 2020

• LEGAL: "Acceleration Clause - Legal or not"

(13) Jan. 12, 2021

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

(14) September 21, 2020

• LEGAL: Breaking brokerage agreements and firing a difficult client

(15) 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) Nov. 15, 2021

• Did you know? SRPD exemption for trustees

(2) Sept. 20, 2021

• Special Edition: Wild West Water Rights

(3) July 17, 2021

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

(4) May 10, 2021

• LEGAL FAQS: SRPD form

(5) November 16, 2020

• LEGAL: FAQ on sharing home inspection reports

(6) February 24, 2020

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

(7) October, 21, 2019

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

(8) 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) Sept. 20, 2021

• Special Edition: Wild West Water Rights

(2) April 19, 2021

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

(3) January 13, 2020

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

(4) January 13, 2020

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

(5) November, 18, 2019

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

(6) November, 4, 2019

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

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

(1) November 1, 2021

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

(2) October 26, 2021

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

(3) August 26, 2021

• LEGAL: Rising Rents: Landlords and Tenants Working Together

(4) August 26, 2021

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

(5) July 26, 2021

• LEGAL: 3 Days  Grace, new late fee law

(6) June 4, 2021

Are we maxed out? -- Residential occupancy limits

(7) May 28, 2021

• Do you dare share? Credit reports and rental docs

(8) May 24, 2021

• Leaseback Lunacy? Leaseback at Your Own Risk!

(9) May 5, 2020

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

(10) July, 29, 2019

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