Florida Realtors® Legal Hotline Top 10 FAQ's

Description

Florida REALTORS® Virtual Campus presents "Florida Realtors® Legal Hotline Top 10 FAQ's" a 2-hour course approved Speciality CE Credit.

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Florida Realtors Associate General Counsel, Joel Maxson, has compiled a list of the top 10 most frequently asked questions for the Legal Hotline which will be reviewed during this course. The Florida Realtors Legal Hotline is a service available exclusively to Florida Realtors members.

Objectives: After taking this class students will be able to:

1. Understand the three points where the team advertising rule at 61J2-10.028 adds to the existing advertising rule at F.A.C. 61J2-10.025.
2. Name three or more factors used to determine procuring cause.
3. Identify the key agreement that determines an associate’s right to compensation.
4. Complete three exercises calculating the effective date and one deadline using a Florida Realtors/Florida Bar “AS IS” Residential Contract for Sale and Purchase.
5. Understand the duty to present offers and the recently added duty for Realtors to confirm compliance with this rule upon written demand by another Realtor.
6. Explain the three main options when a seller requests an early termination to a listing agreement.
7. Explain whether the property can be relisted while there is an unresolved dispute from a former purchase that failed to close. 
8. Pinpoint the time when an offer of compensation in the MLS becomes binding on the brokerage company that procures a successful transaction.
9. Explain the core concept that undergirds issues related to emotional support animals
10. Understand the breadth of the restriction against sharing commission with an unlicensed person for a referral found in Florida Statutes §475.25(1)(h).

Instructor:

Joel Maxson is currently Associate General Counsel for Florida Realtors. He has been a lawyer for Florida Realtors since 2011. Before joining the Realtor family, he was an associate at a national law firm, where he practiced real estate law. His first job after law school was as a Judge Advocate for the United States Marine Corps, where he received a broad range of legal experience.

He received his law degree from the University of Florida.

He and his wife Marnie live in Winter Park, Florida, a few blocks from where his great-grandparents settled in the early 1900s.