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COVID-19: Latest Updates

Updated March 26, 2020 at ##:##am/pm

Thank you! Thank you for your membership and trusting us to keep you current and compliant during this rapidly changing time. Thank you for the innovation and excellence with which you are serving clients. Thank you for doing your part to keep your family and neighborhood healthy.

Like you do with so many other community needs, we know REALTORS® can take the lead on this issue. Let’s all follow Governor Holcomb’s stay-at-home order so we can beat this virus and get back to work ASAP. Lives are at stake.


Skip to:  Stay-At-Home Order  |  Stay-At-Home Order & Real Estate  |  Contract Language  |  All Member Emails  |  Online Course Discounts  |  


WE ARE OPEN

Your Indiana Association of REALTORS® and its Real Estate Certification Program (RECP) staff is working remotely to help stop the spread. Here’s a directory that includes email addresses and mobile numbers, which are the best ways to reach us for the time being.

Staff Directory
Includes email addresses and mobile numbers, which are best right now

That said, most of you visiting this page will have legal, education, or licensing questions. The following contact info is the best for our attorneys and school staff.

IAR Legal Hotline: 1-800-444-5472
  • Available to IAR member Managing Brokers and their designated agents
  • Open Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm ET
  • Calls are answered in the order they are received, always by phone, and within 24 hours

RECP: 1-800-742-4067 or Email
  • Available to all IAR members, current and prospective students, and the public
  • Open Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm ET

STAY-AT-HOME ORDER

On March 23, 2020, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb issued Executive Order 20-08. It directs Hoosiers to stay at home to help stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. The order took effect at 11:59pm on March 24, 2020. It lasts until 11:59pm on April 6, 2020.

Stay-At-Home Order FAQs
This document is maintained by the Governor’s staff, not IAR, so it is not specific to real estate


STAY-AT-HOME ORDER & REAL ESTATE

Here’s the email we sent members immediately after the stay-at-home order was issued. We followed up the next day with this email. In sum:

REALTORS® and their clients may still conduct the activities necessary to buy and sell real estate in Indiana during the time period covered by the order so long as they also comply with the social distancing requirements also in the order.

Given that real estate was deemed an essential service in the stay-at-home order, some members have asked what to do if they’re questioned by law enforcement. So, we put together a document you may carry as you travel.

Proof of Real Estate as an Essential Service
This is not a legal document; it is intended to help ease concerns you may encounter


CONTRACT LANGUAGE


ALL MEMBER EMAILS

Send Date; TimeSubject LineSummary
March 27, 2020;
4:40pm ET
More New Language (Listing Contracts)Contract language and Purchase agreement addendums/amendments, electronic notary news, transaction guidance, and more
March 24, 2020;
1:24pm ET
You Are Essential & Clients May TravelProof of real estate as an essential service and
provides answers to commonly asked questions;
also shares a discount on RECP online courses
March 23, 2020;
3:05pm ET
Today’s Order & Real EstateImpact of Governor Holcomb’s stay-at-home order
on real estate
March 23, 2020;
7am ET
Did You See The New Contract Language?Gives Legal Hotline Q&As and shares IAR
communications with Governor Holcomb’s administration
March 17, 2020;
11pm ET
COVID-19: Attendance at ClosingDiscusses attendance at closing requirements and
provides suggested contract language to deal with
future delays or possible cancellations; also shares
a discount on RECP online courses


ONLINE COURSE DISCOUNTS

Social distancing = a good time to complete your continuing or post-licensing education. IAR’s school, the Real Estate Certification Program, is giving discounts on its online courses through April 15th.

$20 Off 12-Hour Continuing Education   $25 Off 30-Hour Post-Licensing

 

 

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