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Real Estate Fight Club is a podcast for realtors, hosted by Jenn Murtland from Team Synergi Real Estate and Monica Weakley from My Coach Monica. Tune in to hear two different viewpoints about topics agents face every single day! Jenn’s direct, ‘no holds barred’ approach is in opposition to Monica’s softer, 'more relationship-based' approach, and when the two get together… it is a battle for the ages! No matter who you align with, you will walk away with solutions for today's real estate challenges from experienced real estate professionals.
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Monday Dec 14, 2020
Episode 64: Do Attorneys Need To Be Involved in The Sale?
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
On this episode of the Toe-2-Toe Podcast, hosts Jenn Murtland and Monica Weakley duke it out over this question: do you need attorneys involved in the sale? Do Monica and Jenn disagree or are they just bumping heads? Decide for yourself!
Episode Highlights:
- Neither Jenn nor Monica works in a state that requires attorneys to close a real estate deal.
- In attorney states, attorneys handle the same tasks that agents handle in other states.
- Both Jenn and Monica think it just complicates the entire process when attorneys handle those tasks.
- There is no point for an attorney to re-review a contract that has already been reviewed.
- Monica thinks that while it is annoying, you can never be too careful so having an attorney isn’t always useless.
- One case that an attorney would be needed is if there is an addendum on the contract.
- Agents cannot give legal advice but might be able to work through the problem.
- These contracts have already been stamped, so going through that extra step wastes more time.
- Monica likes to have additional trusted resources as she always airs on the side of caution.
- Buyers and sellers can both bring their own attorney to the table.
- Attorneys begin to become a problem when it becomes overkill and returns are diminished.
- Contracts that become too long and complicated have been known to scare clients off.
- This week’s tiebreaker, Rachel Real, is a broker of her own real estate company in the Chicago area.
- Being in an attorney state, Rachel is not allowed to make addendums to the contract after it has been signed.
- Outside of Chicago, there are many areas in Illinois where they don’t use attorneys.
- Only a handful of states have statewide attorney mandates.
- Rachel does not feel that it is necessary to have an attorney involved because the extra time gives clients the chance to shut it down.
- Cities that are in an attorney state mandate a grace period to cancel for any reason after the contract is signed.
- Attorneys don’t know what agents have gone through to get the contract signed, so they should not interfere.
- Many inspectors allow the agent to create an addendum from the information on their report.
3 Key Points:
- Agents need to make sure when clients are seeking legal advice, in which case they need to be referred to an attorney.
- In non-attorney states, agents still have attorney connections that they can contact in case of any legal situation.
- There are pros and cons to having an attorney. A pro being an extra set of qualified eyes never hurts. A con being the time and possibly money wasted when including an extra step.
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