If you are buying or selling a home on your own, without the assistance of a realtor, you have many tasks on your plate, including preparing and showing your home to prospective buyers, and marketing the home online and in person. Let my office help you remove one additional item from your list---the legal contracts required to successfully sell or purchase your home. I have represented both buyers and sellers in real estate transactions and can help you prepare your offer to purchase to meet your unique desires and specifications. If you already have an offer from an interested party, I can review the contract to make sure it is legally sufficient and give you advice on any shortcomings or errors to correct. Finally, I can help you put together the purchase agreement contract and required disclosures required under the law in order for you to successfully sell your home and not have the contract undone due to a legal technicality.

 

If you are selling your home yourself, you have already put in plenty of time and effort preparing the home for sale, showing the home, and soliciting calls and emails from interest buyers. Why let a potential error or oversight in a contract threaten your sale? When you use my office, you can have peace of mind from knowing your attorney has prepared and reviewed all the paperwork according to your unique wishes.

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Did you know that although a Wisconsin licensed realtor is allowed to use certain pre-drafted forms for the purchase or sale of a home, they “May not provide advice or opinions concerning the legal rights or obligations of the parties to a transaction , the legal effect of a specific contract or conveyance, or the state of tile to real estate.” ? Only a licensed attorney can give you legal advice in the State of Wisconsin.

 

See Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter REEB 16 (reproduced below):

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REEB 16.05  Legal advice and practice of law.

(1)  A licensee may not provide advice or opinions concerning the legal rights or obligations of parties to a transaction, the legal effect of a specific contract or conveyance, or the state of title to real estate.

(2) Notwithstanding sub. (1), a licensee may provide a general explanation of the provisions in an approved form to the parties to a transaction at the time of completing the form or when delivering an approved form for the seller's or buyer's acceptance.

(3) A licensee may use approved forms only in those transactions in which the licensee is acting in a capacity as licensee or in which the licensee is a principal, and in either case the use of such forms is incidental to the real estate practice of the licensee.

(4) A licensee may not make a separate charge for completing an approved form in connection with a transaction.

 

Source: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code/admin_code/reeb/16/05