What are the documents involved when buying a home?
WORKING WITH A REAL ESTATE AGENT Buyers and sellers will be presented with this brochure at the earliest contact with a real estate agent. Industry regulations have now made it mandatory for agents to explain at the beginning of the client relationship the options of agency representation you have, and to disclose the capacity in which the agent will be working with you: i.e. as a buyer’s agent, a seller’s agent, as a subagent to the seller, or as a dual agent. The agent will then ask you to sign a statement acknowledging that this disclosure of agency representation has taken place. He or she will then tear off and keep the signed statement and give you the brochure for future reference. Signing the disclosure statement in the Working with a Real Estate Agent brochure does not bind you to any obligation to that real estate agent. It merely confirms that you have discussed your agency representation options with the agent. You will have a contractual arrangement with your agent when yo
