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Showing posts with label License. Show all posts

Monday, January 04, 2021

04 Jan

Pass Rate for NYS Real Estate Salesperson Test Announced

Does it shock you to learn that from January through October 2020, of the 13,527 examinees, only 59% passed the Real Estate Salesperson exam?Brokers did a little better - of the 1,098, 66% passed.Isn't that low? How do we get brokers to pass at a higher rate?Would it help if the state released past exams? That makes...

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

23 Dec

NYS Proposes Regulations that Require Appraisers to Learn Fair Housing / Anti-Discrimination

On 12/23/2020, the NYS Department of State proposed mandating fair housing education as a condition of license renewal for appraisers and assistant appraisers.  The proposed regulations would be at 19 NYCRR 1107.2(b), 19 NYCRR 1107.33(a), (b), and (c), and 19 NYCRR 1107.34. In substance, the regulations...

Thursday, July 07, 2016

07 Jul

What You Need To Know About Short Term Rentals In Southold

In September 2015, Southold passed a law, Southold Town Zoning Code §280-4, prohibiting all transient rental properties, also known as short-term rentals. Thereafter, local folklore emerged about grandfathering a house around the law. Don’t believe the folklore. As a matter of background, prior to the transient rental...