real estate

What do you do with the interest that accumulates on money that's being held in a trust account? In real estate, it's often that we are holding money for a client. Usually trust money for a transaction, that's being held just in escrow until the transaction completes. So, for example, if I put in an offer on a home that I want to buy, I usually put in an amount of money toward earnest, which you would talk to an attorney to see how much you want to do. But say, for example, you choose to put in 1% [...]

Meth contamination. Do you need to disclose when you're selling your house? The idea of a home being contaminated by a substance that could make you sick, that could damage your health, is a very scary thing. Very big problem. And when this was new, when certain individuals were creating the drug and manufacturing it in their home, and it contaminated the walls and the carpet and the floor and everything, and just by entering the home you could absorb this and get sick, really big deal. I’m really glad that we have really good meth testing now and [...]