afbas and consumer costs: The Affiliated Business Arrangement Addendum- What it really means to you
- 01/03/12 07:24 AM
When a buyer or seller is presented with a standard contract of sale that contract can now far exceed more than 40 pages. Among those pages is often found a page titled "Affiliated Business Arrangement Disclosure Statement" It is not at all uncommon for the Realtor to present the contract of sale to the buyer/seller and to simply point and say "sign here, here, here and initial here, here, here." More often than not buyer/sellers will do just that without bothering to read any part of the contract, or alternatively, simply reading what they feel to be important to them, such (22 comments)