by Michele McCaskill | Feb 8, 2024 | Canopy Realtor® Association, MLS Policy
Buyer Love Letters So, here’s how it starts. Your buyer really wants a certain property. There’s a lot of interest in that particular property and your buyer wants to stand out. So, they choose to write a love letter to the seller explaining how their house...
by Michele McCaskill | Jan 22, 2024 | Canopy Realtor® Association, MLS Policy
re-posted from March 2022 Overlapping Showings in a Crazy Market Canopy has posted several articles about overlapping showings and how to handle yourself if you find yourself in a situation where multiple Realtors® are trying to show a listed property to their...
by Michele McCaskill | Aug 7, 2023 | Canopy Realtor® Association
Article 1 of the Realtor® Code of Ethics (the “Code”) falls under the first of the three categories of organization under the Code: “Duties to Clients and Customers.” Article 1 requires Realtors®, in the representation of others, to protect and promote the interests...
by Michele McCaskill | Mar 28, 2023 | Canopy Realtor® Association
What you should know about video surveillance. Republished with the permission of the National Association of REALTORS® Center for REALTOR® Technology. Copyright National Association of REALTORS®. All Rights Reserved. If you’re like many other real estate...
by Michele McCaskill | Mar 28, 2023 | Canopy Realtor® Association
How to make sure you are where you are supposed to be when you are supposed to be there. Believe it or not, we often get complaints about agents entering properties for which they do not have an appointment. The weird twist is that these “showings” were not really...
by Michele McCaskill | Mar 22, 2023 | Canopy Realtor® Association
One of the primary purposes of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968), is to protect a buyer or renter from discrimination based on such things as race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status and disability. The FHA makes it...