CA Agency Model Cheat Sheet

📋 The 1-minute cheat sheet

• Agency relationships: seller's agent, buyer's agent, or dual agent.
• Dual agency is permitted only with informed written consent of both parties.
• Agents owe fiduciary duties: loyalty, care, disclosure, obedience, accounting.
• A statutory Agency Disclosure form must be provided in most residential 1-4 unit sales.
• Civil Code 2079: agent owes a duty of diligent visual inspection of accessible areas.
• Easton v. Strassburger established the broker's visual-inspection disclosure duty.
• The listing agent represents the seller's interests; confirm whom you represent in writing.