Real Estate Ethical Issues

Watch this on demand webinar with CPA, Alex Jerkins, and find out about the latest tax changes that could impact you and your business. You will learn: Details about the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and stimulus loans and how they impact your taxes, Changes to the IRS procedures.

Real estate equity investments and joint ventures have become an increasingly important part of the real estate investment arena, particularly hotel properties. Travel restrictions and health concerns had an extreme impact on hotel properties and operations, and occupancy remains low due to reduced travel. The joint venture model for hotel acquisitions offers many benefits, including increased access to capital. The joint venture agreement and other related documents are very complex and fiercely negotiated. Real estate and finance counsel must understand all the pertinent issues to successfully evaluate and mitigate risk and address economic issues when negotiating and structuring a joint venture agreement for hotel transactions. Listen as our authoritative panel of real estate practitioners and advisers reviews vital legal issues in joint ventures for hotel acquisitions and development, taking into account unique issues in this asset class. The panel will focus on preferred return/promoted interest, carried interest, cash flow splits, risk allocations, guarantees, unwind provisions, and other major decisions.

Your telephone rings, you receive an email and/or a potential client drops by your office. They want you to perform a survey of their property, when can you come to the property and how much will it cost? You ask for the location of the property and their contact information. You thank them for giving you this opportunity to perform their land surveying services and began preparing a cost estimate for your land surveying services.

As a real estate agent, you've probaby used more than one vendor to grow your real estate business. And while their individual services may be great, the additional invoices you pay to multiple vendors, decrease you might see in productivity, and your skyrocketing blood pressure is not.