The REALTOR® you choose to work with in this manner has a legal and ethical duty to provide you with accurate, honest answers to your questions and can provide all these services:

• Explain real estate terms and practices
• Provide and explain form used
• Assist you in screening and viewing properties
• Inform you of lenders and their policies
• Identify and estimate costs involved in a transaction
• Assist you in establishing your range of affordability
• Prepare offers or counter offers at your direction
• Present all offers promptly

A REALTOR® who is not your agent cannot:

• Recommend or suggest a price
• Negotiate on your behalf
• Inform you of his/her prinicipal's, top/bottom line
• Disclose any confidential information about his/her principal unless otherwise authorized.

You should not provide a REALTOR® who is not your agent with any information that you would not provide directly to his or her principal.