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Lou Tulga CCIM CRB Disclosure in Real Estate in New Mexico
1. Disclosure in Real
Estate
6 Education Credit Hours
Lou Tulga CCIM CRB
February 2012
www.loutulga.com
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2. Background to Disclosure in Real
Estate
Under caveat emptor
Under an agency relationship with seller
Under expanding consumer rights
License Law
Common Law
Code of Ethics
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3. When NOT to Disclose
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4. Breadth of Disclosure Items
Brokerage Relationships
Inherent/Situational Conflicts of Interest
Property Condition and Repair
Potential for Allergens
County Assessor Estimated Tax Levy
Lead Based Paint Hazard Disclosure
Required RESPA Disclosures
Etc. ____________________________________
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5. Significance of ―Material Fact‖
Black’s Law Dictionary Definition
Real Estate Broker’s Paraphrase
Material Facts about What?
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6. Disclosure Issues
Actual Knowledge
Should Have Known
On the Premises
Off-Site
Involvement with Sources of Information
Communication to other Brokers
Communication/Documentation to Clients
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7. Disclosure and Common Sense
Disclosure and determination of material fact
Disclosure and use of as is clauses in contracts
Disclosure and use of disclaimers
Disclosure and documentation and
acknowledgment
Etc. ________________________________
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8. Sources of Potential Liability
Statute Liability
Federal
State
Local
Common Law
Contract
Agency
Tort
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9. Failure to Disclose
Actual Damages
Possible Punitive Damages
Possible Criminal Charges
Rescission where Damages Insufficient
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10. Common Law of Tort
Fraud
Active
Passive
―Actual fraud consists of
deceit, artifice, trick, design…[and] the
successful employment of any
cunning, deception, or artifice used to
circumvent or cheatLou Tulga CCIM CRB (Black’s Law Dictionary)
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11. Common Law of Tort
Negligent Misrepresentation
―Negligent misrepresentation occurs
where a person misrepresents a material
fact which is believed to be true but is
false and it is made for the purpose of
being relied upon and is acted upon by the
party to the party’s injury‖
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12. Disclosure and Common Sense
Disclosure and red flags
Disclosure and stigmatized property
Disclosure and fair housing: properties,not
people
Disclosure and consumer consent
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13. Disclosure and Common Sense
Disclosure and determination of material fact
Disclosure and use of as is clauses in contracts
Disclosure and use of disclaimers
Disclosure and documentation and
acknowledgment
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14. Negligent Misrepresentation
The Language of Real Estate, John W. Reilly
states: "It is not necessary that a person actually
intend to misrepresent a fact. A broker or
salesperson is liable if he or she knows or
should have known of the falsity of a statement.
Thus, if a broker makes a negligent
misrepresentation of a material fact to induce a
buyer to buyer, and the buyer relies on this fact
to his or her detriment, then the broker is liable.
The seller is also liable because the statement
was made by his or her agent within the scope
of authority of the agency."
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15. Common Law of Torts
Negligence
Negligence is ―the omission to do something
which a reasonable person, guided by those
ordinary considerations which ordinarily
regulate human affairs, would do, or the doing
of something which a reasonable and prudent
person would not do.‖ (Blacks’ Law Dictionary)
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16. New Mexico Case Law
Neff v Bud Lewis (1976)
Amato v Rathbun (1982)
Gouveia v City Corp (1984)
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17. Seller’s Property Disclosure Statement
Easton v. Strassburger (CA 1984)
Colorado Model: ―Yes, No, Don’t Know, N/A‖
New Mexico Model--"Is the Seller Aware of?‖
Yes □ No □
Benefit of Seller’s Disclosure Statement
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18. MANDATORY LEAD-BASED
PAINT/HAZARD DISCLOSURE
Rationale.
The Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard
Reduction Act of 1992.
Applies only to ―target housing‖—dwellings
built prior to 1978.
The law does not require testing or
abatement.
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19. Agent’s Certification
Agent has informed the Seller of the Seller’s obligations
under 42 U.S.C. 4852d and Agent is aware of Agent’s
responsibility to insure compliance. Under
Regulations, agent means ―any party who enters into a
contract with a seller or lessor, including any party who
enters into a contract with a representative of the seller
or lessor, for the purpose of selling or leasing housing
constructed prior to 1978. This term does not apply to
Buyers or any Buyer’s representative who receives all
compensation from the Buyer.‖ This definition includes
any cooperating licensee or subagent, and any buyer’s
agent who receives any compensation from the listing
broker or the seller.
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20. Superfund Responsible Parties
Strict Liability
Current owner and operator of the site
Party who generated the contamination
Party who transported the contamination
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21. PSYCHOLOGICALLY IMPACTED
PROPERTY
Definition
Real Estate Disclosure Act 47-13-1
through 3 NMSA 1978
Section 1. Disclosure of Material Fact in
Real Estate Transactions
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22. Exemptions
A seller, lessor, or landlord of real
property, including a participant in an exchange
of real property, and any agent involved in such
a transaction, shall not be liable for his failure to
disclose and shall not have a duty to disclose to
any person who acquires by voluntary or
involuntary transfer, a legal or equitable interest
in the real property, including any leasehold
interest or security interest for an obligation, the
fact that the real property is or has been:
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23. Exemptions
The site of a natural death;
The site of a homicide, suicide, assault, sexual assault
or any other crime punishable as a felony; or
Owned or occupied by a person exposed to, infected or
suspected to be infected with the human
immunodeficiency virus or diagnosed to be suffering
from acquired immune deficiency syndrome or any other
disease which has been determined by medical
evidence to be highly unlikely to be transmitted to others
through occupancy of improvements on real property or
that is not known to be transmitted through occupancy of
improvements located on the real property
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24. Exemptions
The failure to make a disclosure of any of
the facts or suspicions described in
Section 1 shall not be deemed to be
grounds for termination or rescission of
any sale, lease, exchange or any
transaction in which an interest in the real
property has been or will be conveyed to
another
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25. No Cause of Action
No cause of action shall arise against a
seller, lessor or landlord of real
property, including a participant in an exchange
of real property, and any agents involved in such
a transaction, for failure to disclose to any
person who, by voluntary or involuntary
transfer, acquires a legal or equitable interest in
the real property, including any leasehold
interest or security interest for an obligation, in
any action at law or in equity because of the
failure to disclose that the real property was or is
suspected to have been the site of the incidents
described in Section 1.
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26. No Duty to Disclose in New
Mexico
The site of a natural death
,homicide, suicide, assault, sexual assault or any other
crime punishable as a felony
Owned or occupied by a person exposed to, infected or
suspected to be infected with the human
immunodeficiency virus or diagnosed to be suffering
from acquired immune deficiency syndrome or any other
disease which has been determined by medical
evidence to be highly unlikely to be transmitted to others
through occupancy of improvements on real property or
that is not known to be transmitted through occupancy of
improvements located on the real property.
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27. Part 19 Required Disclosures—‖Trigger
Event‖
Prior to the time the Licensee generates or
presents any written document that has the
potential to become an Express Written
Agreement, written disclosure of (a) any
written Brokerage Relationship that the
Licensee has with any other Parties to the
Transaction and/or (b) any material interest
or relationship of a business, personal, or
family nature that the Licensee has in the
Transaction;
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28. Required Disclosures
Range of Brokerage Relationships in NM
Written Copy of Broker Duties
Written Disclosure of Existing Written
Contract with the other party to a potential
transaction
Written Disclosure of Broker’s conflicts of
interest –personal, business, financial, etc.
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30. Disclosure in Real Estate
Approved by the New Mexico Real Estate Commission for
6 Education CE Credit Hours
Contact--Lou Tulga CCIM CRB
3200 Carlisle NE Suite 224 Albuquerque, NM 87110 Voice 505-889-
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