Environmental Liability and Real Property Transactions is a must-have guide to managing risk of environment liabilities in real property transactions. It gives you excellent advice on how to conduct due diligence, hire experts, and discover tell-tale signs of environmental trouble. You'll find in-depth coverage of liability defenses, how to limit environmental exposure, and how to manage contaminated property. New sections include information on electromagnetic fields, lead and radon, liability of trustees, and a discussion of different types of insurance. The book also features numerous forms, checklists, and practice pointers.
Going beyond the principles and practices studens have already learned, this new edition explores the skills necessary for building and managing a successful real estate brokerage. Based on the revised FREC broker course syllabus, Florida Real Estate Broker's Guide provides a complete source for your broker prelicensing curriculum. Highlights include: * Four new case studies prepare students for realworld practice. * Timely, comprehensive couverage of all course topicsmakes supplemental material unnecessary. * Web resources encourage students to explore keytopics. * Free Instructor Resource Guide includeschapter outlines, matching exercises, vocabularylists and two practice exams.
This work examines the growing body of environmental laws and regulations and outlines the due diligence necessary to avoid liability. Numerous sample forms are included.
Learn how to handle the uncertainty associated with environmental liability in A Lender's Guide to Environmental Liability Management. This concise, nontechnical handbook provides detailed information on how these ever-present liabilities can be managed effectively. It gives you the facts you need to explore lending opportunities in new areas while ensuring that your institution operates without unnecessary exposure to financial loss. This much-needed guide provides down-to-earth explanations of the liabilities arising from environmental problems, the science behind these liabilities, and the methods that lenders should implement to minimize financial risk - all without a single mathematical or scientific equation. The guide, divided into six main sections, is filled with must-have information focusing on o environmental law and the lender o the science of soil and groundwater contamination o recommendations for lending institutions' environmental policies o methods for management of contamination liability o techniques for management of contaminated sites o and the lender's role in trusts and financial management. Become environmentally literate and improve your financial decision-making outcomes with A Lender's Guide to Environmental Liability Management. This extremely useful and practical book will save you worry, time, and money.
Florida Real Estate Postlicensing for Sales Associates (FREPSA) is 45-hour review and applied principles coursebook for newly-licensed sales associates beginning their real estate careers in Florida. It is designed to satisfy your one-time postlicense requirement as a sales associate actively practicing real estate in Florida. FREPSA is used with approved sales associate postlicensing courses throughout Florida. There are three principal themes underlying the content of our FREPSA course. First is to give you a key-point review of the most critical laws and regulations impacting your current practice: license-related regulations, brokerage relationships review, disclosures and professional practices that form the foundations of professional practice. This review additionally includes a brief review of rules and regulations framing compliant practices in advertising, fair housing and brokerage operations. Second, we wanted to give you a deeper exposure to more advanced, transaction-related brokerage practices that are critical to becoming a successful practitioner: market analysis; pricing; investment principles, construction knowledge, obtaining and marketing listings, and managing the pre-closing period. Finally, we wanted to present several additional perspectives on real estate practice that can add valuable new dimensions to your future engagements in real estate practice: property management, real estate-related insurance, and risk management. And, for students who appreciate a brush-up in real estate math, we cap off the program with a comprehensive review of transaction-related math formulas and calculations. Table of Contents Real Estate Specializations Florida License Law Review Florida Brokerage Relationships Review Property Disclosures & Professional Practices Brokerage Practice Regulations Fair Housing and Landlord-Tenant Laws Condos, Co-ops, Timeshares, HOAs, CDDs Foreclosures and Short Sales Real Estate Market Economics Estimating Property Value Real Property Investment Analysis Property Insurance Risk Management Property Management Construction Terminology Elements of the Listing Process Inside the Sales Contract Real Estate Mathematics Practice Exam
