Legal Resources Center
Welcome to VAR’s Legal Resources Center! The Center is designed to keep you updated on legal issues relevant to their real estate practices and reduce their exposure to risk. The Legal Resources Center includes:
| VAR's Short Sales Resource Center Short sales have become common transactions for most Realtors®. These lengthy transactions are always a challenge to take on. But those Realtors® who have rolled up their sleeves are realizing the benefit of gaining expertise on these time-consuming transactions. The end result is better service to your clients and better business for you in a trying market. This is your one-stop-shop to access a variety of resources to make you an expert on short sales and other complicated and distressed transactions. |
| VAR's Legal Hotline The Hotline, a top rated VAR service, is a free risk management tool that offers registered broker members and their designees timely legal information on day-to-day issues they confront in their real estate practices. |
| Hotline Answers Archive Our Hotline attorneys have heard just about everything! Now you can access their categorized answers to common legal questions. Before you call the Hotline, or if it's after hours, check here. Your answer may be a few clicks away. |
 25 Common Legal Hotline Questions & AnswersOne of our most important jobs at VAR is helping to keep you on the right side of the law. That's why we offer brokers access to our Legal Hotline and Legal Resources Center. They call with questions, we give them answers. Often, though, they call with the same questions as someone else – the so-called frequently asked question. If so many people want to know this, we thought, we should compile them into a single document. Now all agents can read the results. |
| Form Factor Archive Forms — they're the bread and butter of a deal. They're full of fine print and legalese, and not everyone "gets" the details. And that often ends up as a call to our Legal Resources Center. So we asked our intrepid associate counsel (read: lawyer), Blake Hegeman, to take the VAR forms the LRC gets the most questions about and illuminate them for us. |
| VAR Legal Articles You may know the rules, but are you sure you understand how to put them into practice? Here you can access in-depth discussion on a variety of real estate-related legal topics, including earnest money deposits, short sales, RESPA, ethics, and more. |
| The Code is Good Business The Code is Good Business site is your best online resource for practically applying NAR's Code of Ethics in your business. The Code is an integral part of what makes a REALTOR® an asset to his or her clients. Take advantage of the site case studies, Straight Talk lessons and blog to ensure your business and clients are both protected and profitable. |
| NAR Legal Resources Your REALTOR® membership provides you with a wealth of expert legal information in a variety of formats. Visit this link to find valuable information for both you and your clients, including podcasts, brochures, articles, and much more. |
Please visit this site often, as it will be frequently updated with information on the latest legal trends.
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