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In the US there have been court cases where the dog was not considered a trained SD because it in fact had received no training, obedience or otherwise and did not perform trained tasks.

Service Dog central has a good list of case law.

http://www.servicedogcentral.org/
http://www.servicedogcentral.org/content/

The deltasociety.org site has a lot of info, too.
http://www.deltasociety.org/ServiceInformationBasic.htm

http://archive.deltasociety.org/ServiceAccessHousing.htm

And if you're interested in "traditional" tasks, there is
http://www.iaadp.org/tasks.html with a pretty comprehensive list of tasks that can be trained to mitigate a disability-keys being TRAINED and mitigating the disabled persons disability.
Ofgift

A thought from the other side of that:
What goes around comes around.
As one who has been the recipient of much help over the years of various kinds of help that I had no way of repaying, I always worked to repay, by paying it forward.
For several years, a friend kept my jalopy going for me. I had no way to repay him, but I was able to pass my thanks to others.

It is THE reason I am where I am today.
Thanks for your post. You are an Inspiration.

Ofgift

Thank you very much.
I will see about adjusting it to my situation.
Ofgift

Would you share, either on here, or via email, your contract?
Thanks,
Ofgift

I finally called a real estate attorney just now to hire to do the paperwork and closing for me when I sell my house in January. He talked of papers, and said I CAN use the Arizona realtors form, to just go through it and white out all references to any specific agencies, to cut and paste.
I may not have to do that, I think it's on the net.
This is where my trusted agent failed me yet again-she said very clearly that I could not use ANY of those papers she gave me, it would be aviolation of copyright law.
He said hiring an attorney to do what is needed here is too expensive, to just use that purchase agreement and a title company. So I will.
Thanks, Joan... :mrgreen:
Ofgift

- Have you tried any other type of marketing besides online like newspapers, local flyers, signs, etc?
Not yet, but I will, after Christmas. I plan to use local newspapers & pull tab notices.


- How low did you set the price too? my mentors said he would put the starting price at 25% below ARV.
HA! That's what I did...And I wonder if it's too high.

how many other 5 day auctions have you done?
None-I'm a newbie at this, and have just two houses to sell and replace, hopefully with two each. (Then I can do more! lol)

You mentioned modified. What is different?
Advertising almost a month ahead of the sale, instead of 3 days in advance, on the net, nationwide ads on the net, rather than just local, and the price: Rather than setting it at 50%, I set it at 75%, based on many many posts that people weren't bidding much beyond the listed price, or low numbers of responses, and this through the last year of the archives.
Only 2 people recently posted that they had sales and got what they felt were decent results, but both were 20% or more less than their desired price.

Many people didn't sell. I want to sell, but not at 50% of what everybody else is getting.
Sales pitch here:
It's in a nice and still entry level neighborhood. It's one of the smallest models (1280 sq feet), so appropriate for either younger families, or even empty nesters. Many of the kids, I understand, have grown up and gone, and my immediate neighbors are older, except for one family, and I think they have a teenager.

Thanks for the feedback. I hope others will chime in.
Ofgift

You're right, and I thought that's what I had in Joan, too, but discovered via a few places she showed me that wasn't true of _our_ relationship. I trusted her, until I learned I couldn't.
That was after I joined BP, and became more observant and aware, and asked more questions.
Ofgift

Greg said, "The listing agent is working for the seller and trying to get them the best deal"

Remember BOTH agents are working for the seller-AKA THEHIGHEST COMMISSION/ BEST DEAL.

The agent's FIRST loyalty is to the commission. EVEN when your agent says "THIS IS THE BEST", Read the fine print.
For as much as I trusted Joan, my agent of 15 years, I always read each contract, and compared to previous ones. She said they're all the same. That's not necessarily true: Forms/requirements/laws/needs change, and the fine print and contingencies can and do, too.

You need to look after yourself-each agent is looking after the commission.
Ofgift

You said, "I made a short sale offer with him on one of these properties, but the bank ended up foreclosing.

With some research, I found out the bank involved, called them, and was put in contact with the new listing agent of 1 day."
Though I might agree with Mike C, "pay my original agent because I originally made my first offer through him. If I close on that property, I owe him his part of the commission. He represented you with regards to this property," it seems to me that when the bank foreclosed, that ended that deal through your agent, so you owe him no loyalty and no commission.
Mike does have a point, which I made in my post--"I'm also not a youngster, so don't plan to do this for a living for very long." Though I do believe you owe that agent no commission, and he probably would agree except for wanting the money from you, consider approaching it this way, since you are just starting out and as Mike said, have your reputation to consider, talk to the agent-in fact, maybe make a couple of anonymous calls to a few local brokers to find out the local thinking on this, keeping all names out, and if they ask if it's one of their agents say no.
Then maybe talk to the agent and let him know
a) either you owe him the commission and will tell the bank you're working with an agent
b) you don't owe him the commission, but since you've been working together you want to give him a little anyway, and YOU determine if it's the entire amount of the commission or what part of it--50%? 75%? 10%?
Your reputation and integrity in working with agents should be kept at the highest level, but that includes NOT paying when you are not required to. THAT makes you look dumb. Offering to pay -and paying a portion when none is needed, makes you look like a stand-up guy. (IMHO)
Ofgift

How do PM handle move out/move in?
What is checking procedure?
Who do they protect, the tenant or the owner?
Ofgift