FAOR Forms Changes

The FAOR Purchase Agreement and Exclusive Listing Agreement are updated on the FAOR website. 

The new changes to the Purchase Agreement include the new wording for Ohio Licensed Home Inspectors in Section 12, wording in Section 12 (C), and added Brokerage Information in the Agency Contact Information. The new changes to the Exclusive Listing Agreement include seller initials and address to the bottom of the pages, wording for the videography and surveillance systems in the “Showing Instructions”, and wording in the “Consent for Unsupervised Access” clause.  The forms are now on the FORMS section and dotLoop has been provided the forms for upload as well.  

The Board Office will no longer be selling the carbon copy forms for these. We will continue to sell the Agency Disclosure and Residential Property Disclosure forms until they are sold out. We will continue to sell the “Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home” booklets and Lead Disclosure forms.

COVID-19

In order to be as proactive as we can during the COVID-19 outbreak, Firelands Association of Realtors will suspend usage of the facility starting on Monday, March 16, 2020. The suspension will occur until further notice.

The Firelands Association of Realtors has been forced to postpone and/or cancel some upcoming events. We will be looking at dates to reschedule some of these events later in 2020. Below is a list of postponed or canceled events.

Wednesday, March 18th - Soup R' Bowl Reverse Raffle
Thursday, March 19th - Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday, March 25th - Member Services Committee Meeting
Wednesday, March 25th - Forms Committee Meeting
Wednesday, April 8th - New Member Orientation

We thank you for your understanding. We will continue to monitor the situation and will follow the guidelines set forth by Governor DeWine in the future.  Please be safe.

Clear Cooperation Policy

Section 1.16 Clear Cooperation Policy 

Within one (1) business day of marketing a property to the public, the listing broker must submit the listing to the MLS for cooperation with other MLS Participants.  Public marketing includes, but is not limited to flyers displayed in windows, yard signs, digital marketing on public facing websites, brokerage website displays (including IDX and VOW), digital communications marketing (email blasts), multi-brokerage listing sharing networks and applications available to the general public.

Exclusive listing information for required property types must be filed and distributed to other MLS Participants for cooperation under the Clear Cooperation Policy.  This applies to listings filed under Section 1 and listings exempt from distribution under Section 1.3 of the MLS Rules if it is being publicly marketed, and any other situation where the listing broker is publicly marketing an exclusive listing that is required to be filed with the service and is not currently available to other MLS Participants.

MLS Participants must distribute exempt listings within (1) business day once the listing is publicly marketed.

The fine schedule for a violation of the Clear Cooperation Policy is as follows:

• 1st offense is $2500.00
• 2nd offense is $5000.00
• Any further violations will result in review by the FAOR Board of Directors to impose additional fines and may result in suspension of MLS services.

2020 Hondros College Scholarship Awarded

The 2020 Scholarship Committee received several worthy applicants this year. The scholarship was awarded to Doris Lee of Port Clinton.

Doris is a single mom and eager to begin her career in Real Estate.  She was sponsored by Real Living Morgan Realty Group.  Broker Alex Johnson said that Doris has an incredible work ethic and is a self-starter and can think outside of the box.  All three of these characteristics fit so well into the Real Estate Industry.  Alex looks forward to seeing what Doris brings to the Real Estate Industry.

Congratulations Doris!

Help 1st Time Homebuyers in Ohio and ask your Ohio Senator to Support SB 139

Only 10 percent of Ohio’s REALTORS have answered our “Call For Action” seeking passage of our top legislative priority – the Ohio First-time Homebuyer Savings Act (Senate Bill 139).

We CAN and MUST do better if we hope to have it successfully voted out of the Senate Ways & Means Committee. We NEED your help…here’s how:

• Share with family, friends, and followers, like and comment on the Call For Action posts we currently have on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. The more you engage with our social media posts the more we can get the word out! Use the following links to access the posts:

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/OhioRealtors/

LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6638101875134607360

TWITTER https://twitter.com/OhioRealtors/status/1232335691159396352

INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/p/B8_xL21AOqh/?igshid=1s6giqyqp2sz3

• Encourage your family, friends, clients and customers to respond to the Call For Action.

• Ask your fellow REALTORS to answer the Call For Action.