Learn how easy it is to manage your business with the new zipForm® Plus responsive-design platform in a webinar with Oregon Real Estate Forms (OREF)! Attendees will learn how to create a new transaction, to establish profile settings, explore the agent dashboard, review guided help features, and more.
Register for Learn the Basics of Your New zipForm® Program on November 16th.
Learn how easy it is to manage your business with the new zipForm® Plus responsive-design platform in a webinar with Oregon Real Estate Forms (OREF)! Attendees will learn how to create a new transaction, to establish profile settings, explore the agent dashboard, review guided help features, and more.
Register for Learn the Basics of Your New zipForm® Program on November 8th.
Join Jeff Wiren and Steve Russell for a webinar addressing contingency agreements: risks, timelines, and notices. A detailed syllabus is available on OREF’s website.
Registration will open on April 10th and cost is $19 per location/computer. Register for the OREF Contingency Agreement webinar.
Join lecturers Phil Querin and Jeff Wiren for a webinar addressing the major forms changes to OREF forms in 2017. This webinar will focus on changes that affect REALTOR® practice, the reason for the changes, and the impact on risk management.
Registration is $20 per location/computer and the deadline to register is Tuesday, January 3rd at 4:30pm. Register for the OREF Form Changes webinar.
RMLS™ subscribers who use OREF forms, great news—a new feature has been released on RMLSweb that helps make transactions easier. Technicians have rolled out mlsPush/SSO by zipLogix, enabling users to move seamlessly from RMLSweb into zipForm®.
While viewing an Agent Full report, clicking the OREF button will begin a new transaction within zipForm® and auto-populate some listing information into the cover sheet. Users wishing to manage all OREF transactions on their account should click the OREF/zipLogix link under the Toolkit menu or in the list of links on the RMLSweb desktop.
RMLSweb users will need to log in to zipForm® the first time they use this service, but future access will utilize single sign-on technology, meaning less hassle.
Those who prefer to keep using zipLogic’s mlsConnect for forms will be able to do so.
Read more about this project or access tutorials on the OREF website.
Oregon Real Estate Forms (OREF) LLC invites real estate professionals to join their final CE opportunity of the year, a webinar that offers 2.5 CE credits for registered attendees.
9:30am-11:00am
Maximizing the Use of Your Oregon Real Estate Forms Library will cover which forms to use with different sale agreements (Instructors: Phil Querin and Jeff Wiren)
11:00am-12:00pm
ZipForm Plus® with Transaction Management and Storage (TMS) will cover new features within ZipForm® Plus. (Instructor: Christina Miller with zipLogix)
Participation in all 2.5 hours of this webinar is required, no partial credits will be administered.
If your brokers are representing clients in seller carry transactions, it is important to be aware of the seller carry forms, soon to be uploaded. Understanding the forms, gently handling a transaction by using any and/or all of the six forms, and recommending legal consultation are just a few of the many tips Oregon Real Estate Forms (OREF) will discuss in their June 30th webinar about seller financing.
Read more and register for Seller Financing through the Oregon Association of REALTORS® website—1.5 CE will be administered for the course.
Join OREF for When is Acceptance Binding to the Parties in the Real Estate Transaction?, a webinar with instructors Phil Querin and Jeff Wiren, covering the following:
• Ever wonder when a deal’s A DEAL? Ever had a client change their mind and expect you to undo the deal?
• Can you undo a deal? What happens if your counter-offer is rejected. Can you snap up the original offer?
• When does an acceptance become binding—on transmission or receipt? And what is a “meeting of the minds” anyway?
Learn more about When is Acceptance Binding to the Parties in the Real Estate Transaction.
Our friends over at Oregon Real Estate Forms (OREF) have issued the following update about the disclosure of Annual Percentage Rate:
OREF’s legal counsel, Phil Querin, advises all brokers in the state of Oregon to be aware of federal disclosure requirement that may cause a delay in closing.
Under new rules enacted by the Federal Reserve Board Truth in Lending Act, effective July 30, 2009 it is required that if the final Annual Percentage Rate (APR) changes by .125% or more as disclosed in the Good Faith Estimate there is a mandatory additional three business day waiting period before the transaction can close.
It is suggested that brokers get their buyers and sellers to agree in advance to a written extension as a contingency if the final APR causes the 3-day extension beyond the scheduled Closing Deadline such as:
“In the event that Buyer’s final Annual Percentage Rate (“APR”) differs from the APR initially disclosed to the Buyer in the Good Faith Estimate by .125% or more, the Closing Deadline defined in the Real Estate Sale Agreement shall automatically be extended for three (3) additional business days in accordance with Regulation Z of the Truth in Lending Act, as amended on July 30, 2008.”
If brokers encounter such a situation for a transaction already in process, they can extend the Closing Deadline by using an addendum form (OREF-002).
Caveat: This is not legal advice. All brokers should confer with their principal brokers and also recommend that their clients consult their own legal counsel if they have any questions.
