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Line by Line Forms Training

Upgrade your forms knowledge with online forms training

If drafting errors or contract issues delay your transactions, the Line by Line online video series has what you need to get back on track. With video host Jennifer Lindsley, Line by Line episodes provide an in-depth overview of frequently used real estate forms so you can reduce your risk of error and misrepresentation. New episodes are released when forms are updated.

As of March 1, 2022, all WRA members now have free access to the video series. The goal of these videos is to educate, raise professionalism and walk members through all the details of commonly used Wisconsin-based real estate forms and how to complete them with accuracy and competence. Previously a subscription-based series, Line by Line is now available for free as part of WRA membership* and gives all members equal access to the best Wisconsin-based real estate forms training on the market.

*This video series is free for WRA REALTOR® members and legal section members.


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Episode guide

Ep. 1 WB-1 Residential Listing Contract
  • Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Five different ways to earn a commission.
  • When your commission is based on list price vs. purchase price.
  • Delivery, protected buyers and the extension of listing.
  • What happens to earnest money held by a firm if the seller's transaction fails to close.
  • What the different agency choices mean for you and your seller.
  • WB-42 Amendment to Listing Contract.
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Ep. 2 WB-36 Buyer Agency/Tenant Representation Agreement
  • Length: 2 hours 10 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • When a client can give a firm exclusive right to act as an agent.
  • Excluded properties subject to a prior agreement.
  • Various compensation models, such as flat-fee, hourly and retainer.
  • Disclosure to clients, protecting confidentiality and material adverse facts.
  • Lien notices and commercial transactions.
  • WB-47 Amendment to Buyer Agency/Tenant Representation Agreement.
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Ep. 3 WB-4 Residential Condominium Listing Contract – Exclusive Right to Sell
  • Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Correctly describe the condominium offered for sale
  • Help the seller identify what will be included in or excluded from from the sale.
  • Description of the unit, common elements, and limited common elements.
  • Delivery of condominium disclosure documents.
  • Buyer rescission based on condominium documents.
  • WB-42 Amendment to Listing Contract.
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Ep. 4 WB-11 Residential Offer to Purchase (2020)
  • Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Review how to satisfy the Financing Commitment Contingency.
  • Consider how seller financing might influence terms in a transaction.
  • Evaluate how to use the Right to Cure provision with the Appraisal Contingency.
  • Explore all the ways to use the Bump Clause with contingencies.
  • Streamline your drafting with the pre-printed Radon Testing Contingency.
  • WB-40 Amendment to Offer to Purchase.
  • WB-41 Notice Relating to Offer to Purchase.
  • WB-44 Counter-offer.
  • WB-46 Multiple Counter-Proposal.
  • WB-25 Bill of Sale.
  • WB-45 Cancellation Agreement & Mutual Release.
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Ep. 5 WB-14 Condominium Offer to Purchase
  • Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Explore the Condominium Offer to Purchase and all the documents that can be part of a purchase transaction.
  • Learn how to determine exactly what’s included in a condominium sale.
  • Discover how important deadlines for condominium documents can affect your transactions.
  • Master the different purposes of an amendment and notice.
  • Review how to describe a unit’s common elements and limited common elements.
  • WB-44 Counter-offer.
  • WB-46 Multiple Counter-proposal.
  • WB-40 Amendment to Offer.
  • WB-41 Notice Relating to Offer.
  • WB-45 Cancellation Agreement and Mutual Release.
  • WB-25 Bill of Sale
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Ep. 6 WB-28 Cooperative Agreement
  • Length: 22 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Learn when and how you can cooperate with licensees from other states.
  • Review the Wisconsin firm’s role when cooperating with out-of-state licensees.
  • Explore how to use the WB Cooperative Agreements to control an out-of-state licensee’s participation in a transaction.
  • Consider alternatives to cooperation such as referrals.
  • Understand how to best serve the parties when working with an out-of-state licensee.
  • WB-29 Commercial Cooperative Agreement.
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Ep. 7 WB-3 Vacant Land Listing Contract
  • Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Explore the Vacant Land Listing.
  • Learn how to determine exactly what’s included in a vacant land sale.
    • Discover important deadlines for the delivery of the vacant land disclosure report.
  • Consider how rights of first refusal, zoning and utility connections affect the transaction.
  • Review how to discuss government programs with the seller for disclosure purposes.
  • WB-42 Amendment to Listing Contract.
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Ep. 8 WB-13 Vacant Land Offer to Purchase
  • Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Explore the Vacant Offer to Purchase and all the documents that can be part of a purchase transaction.
  • Learn to correctly identify the property when a portion of an existing property is being offered for sale.
  • Consider how the purchase price may be affected by the survey.
  • Master using the proposed use contingency and understanding the uses of the various sub-contingencies.
  • Consider how zoning and subdivision restrictions affect a property’s use.
  • WB-44 Counter-offer.
  • WB-46 Multiple Counter-proposal.
  • WB-40 Amendment to Offer.
  • WB-41 Notice Relating to Offer.
  • WB-45 Cancellation Agreement and Mutual Release.
  • WB-25 Bill of Sale.
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Ep. 9 WB-5 Commercial Listing Contract
  • Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Explore the WB-5 Commercial Listing Contract.
  • Identify how to make sure your seller has the ability to sell a commercial building.
  • Consider how zoning classification can help you market a property.
  • Review agency and how to properly protect buyers.
  • Compare which terms an agent can amend with and without permission from a supervising broker.
  • WB-42 Amendment to Listing Contract
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Ep. 10 WB-38 and WB-47 Buyer Agency/Tenant Forms
  • Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • When a client can give a firm exclusive right to act as an agent.
  • Excluded properties subject to a prior agreement.
  • Various compensation models, such as flat-fee, hourly and retainer.
  • Disclosure to clients, protecting confidentiality and material adverse facts.
  • Lien notices and commercial transactions.
  • WB-47 Amendment to Buyer Agency/Tenant Representation Agreement.
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Ep. 11 WB-15 Commercial Offer to Purchase
  • Length: 2 hours 20 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Explore the Commercial Offer to Purchase and all the documents that can be part of a purchase transaction.
  • Lean how to determine whether a seller has the authority to sell on behalf of an entity.
  • Discover when a seller provides estoppel letters to a buyer and why they are important.
  • Master how a buyer can use the document review contingency to request inventories, authority to sell and rent rolls.
  • Review how a buyer can use the environmental evaluation contingency to identify potential contamination on a property.
  • WB-44 Counter-offer.
  • WB-46 Multiple Counter-proposal.
  • WB-40 Amendment to Offer.
  • WB-41 Notice Relating to Offer.
  • WB-45 Cancellation Agreement and Mutual Release.
  • WB-25 Bill of Sale.
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Ep. 12 WB-37 Residential Listing Contract — Exclusive Right to Rent
  • Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Learn how to list a property when your property owner wants to rent the property instead of selling it.
  • Distinguish between duties of a listing agent and a property manager.
  • Consider how to expand a listing for rent into property management.
  • Identify WRA forms that can assist you in managing property when the owner wants to rent.
    • Explore critical rules related to trust accounts when listing a property for rent or engaging in property management.
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Ep. 13 WB-24 Option to Purchase
  • Length: 54 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Learn how to use the WB-24 Option to Purchase to lock in a buyer’s right to buy a property without the obligation to actually purchase it.
  • Review how an option differs from an offer when it comes to the timing of inspections, testing and financing.
  • Explore scenarios when an option is a better fit than an offer for your buyer.
  • Consider how to create a rent-to-own scenario using an option with a lease.
  • Highlight when a buyer would want to record an option or record a document evidencing the option.
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Ep. 14 WB-2 Farm Listing Contract and WB-42 Amendment to Listing
  • Length: 1 hour 38 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Learn how to use the WB-2 Farm Listing Contract to describe the farm you are listing.
  • Explore how to accurately identify government programs that might restrict land use on a farm.
  • Consider how use value taxation might affect a transaction.
  • Review the definition of fixtures in relation to farm equipment and crops.
  • Discuss when post-closing occupancy might occur if there are existing crops on the property.
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Ep. 15 WB-12 Farm Offer to Purchase
  • Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Identify the complexities an agent may encounter in a farm transaction including use restrictions from government programs.
  • Expand your understanding of fixtures and personal property in the context of a farm where equipment and animals may be involved.
  • Consider how zoning is going to affect your buyer’s intended use of the property.
  • Understand the importance of identifying rental agreements that may affect the sale.
  • Review how to use contingencies to investigate water and waste treatment systems.
  • WB-44 Counter-offer.
  • WB-46 Multiple Counter-Proposal.
  • WB-41 Notice Relating to Offer.
  • WB-45 Cancellation Agreement and Mutual Release.
  • WB-25 Bill of Sale.
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Ep. 16 WB-6 Business Listing Contract – Exclusive Right to Sell
  • Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Explore the WB-6 Business Listing Contract.
  • Identify how to make sure your seller has the ability to sell the business.
  • Consider including or excluding the real property is going to affect the transaction.
  • Review how to identify items of personal property included in a sale.
  • Compare which terms an agent can amend with and without permission from a supervising broker.
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Ep. 17 WB-16 Offer to Purchase – Business with Real Estate Interest
  • Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Learn how to draft an offer on a business that includes real estate.
  • Identify personal and real property a buyer wants to purchase.
  • Consider the tax implications for how personal and real property are identified in the offer.
  • Determine when a buyer needs to consult tax advisers and attorneys in a business transaction.
  • Compare different real estate interests that may be conveyed, including owned and leased property.
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Ep. 18 WB-17 Offer to Purchase – Business Without Real Estate Interest
  • Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Learn how to draft an offer on a business that does not include real estate.
  • Identify personal property a buyer wants to purchase or lease.
  • Consider the tax implications for how personal property is identified in the offer.
  • Determine when a buyer needs to consult tax advisers and attorneys in a business transaction.
  • Compare leases that may be transferred or terminated in the sale.
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Ep. 19 WB-35 Simultaneous Exchange Agreement
  • Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
  • Price: Free with membership

Topics

  • Learn the process for engaging in a simultaneous exchange.
  • Consider whether a simultaneous exchange or a deferred exchanges is right for your parties.
  • Identify when to use the WB-35 Simultaneous Exchange Agreement.
  • Evaluate those exchanges for which the WB-35 Simultaneous Exchange Agreement is not appropriate.
  • Review drafting tips for all the WB forms.
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