KEEPING POSTED July 2020
A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE SAN ANTONIO AREA REALTORS ®
Give Back with SABOR SABOR members are no strangers to giving back to the San The drive will be specifically for 16-ounce packages of pasta. If you Antonio community. So many volunteer with local non-profits, would like to participate, please bring your donations to SABOR civic organizations and other charitable groups throughout the year, during the month of September. demonstrating the care REALTORS® have for building communities. In October, a drive benefiting the Fisher House will commence. SABOR has several opportunities for members to join us in giving This year we are asking for donations of gift cards to grocery stores. back to the community. Last year SABOR adopted the San Antonio The Fisher House is a home where military and veterans’ families Food Bank as one of our two Charities of Choice. This year we can stay free of charge while their loved one is in the hospital. By decided to continue with our yearlong peanut butter drive to help donating grocery gift cards, you are helping the families with loved satisfy one of the Food Bank’s greatest needs. If you would like to ones in the hospital not have to worry about food during difficult join in, please drop off your donations or have them sent to SABOR times. The gift cards allow the Fisher House to provide meals and at 9110 W IH-10. snacks to their residents so food is never a concern. In late June SABOR kicked off our annual Uniform Drive for the children at SAMMinistries. SABOR members play a huge role in helping the kids at the shelter get ready for back to school, and we need your help to make this year a continued success. This year SABOR is hosting the Uniform Drive online, so there is no need to come to the association to select a child to sponsor. Simply select a child from the online form and purchase the requested items. After your shopping trip, drop off your items (with the child’s information attached) at SABOR and we will take care of the rest!
In November, SABOR’s YPN Committee will put up their “Y We Care Tree” which helps to provide children at SAMMinistries with holiday gifts. The tree will have paper ornaments that have a child’s specific holiday gift wish on it. To participate just choose an ornament from the tree, purchase the gift and bring it back to SABOR unwrapped by the due date on the ornament.
On November 5, SABOR will be having a Volunteer Day at the San Antonio Food Bank. This is an opportunity for our members to help sort and package food in the Food Bank’s warehouse to help Beginning in July, SABOR’s REALTOR® Image and Community provide meals to families in our community. The event will last from Outreach Committee will launch a donation drive to benefit Child 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. and is a great way to get involved and give back. Advocates of San Antonio (CASA). The drive is focused on collecting With a wide variety of upcoming donation drives we are eager for activities for children (infant to age 19) including items like games, your participation! If you would like more information about any of puzzles, and crafts. Donations can be dropped off at SABOR or if our upcoming charitable events, please email you prefer you can have the item mailed to the association. communications@sabor.com. This year SABOR will also be hosting a drive for the Children’s Hunger Fund which will take place during the month of September.
Legal & Ethics
Understanding Negligence and How to Reduce Your Risk
Historically the top category of TREC complaints have been Even if a client can prove you owed them a duty and that you related to “bad acts or negligence.” Therefore, this article will briefly breached your duty, to prevail on a negligence claim they would need discuss some common principles associated with negligence claims. to prove that your breach was the cause of their harm and that they What is negligence? Negligence has been defined as the failure to were damaged by your breach. In closing, remember your duties and do that which a person of ordinary prudence would have done under consider how these duties impact your interactions with your clients the same or similar circumstances, or doing that which a person of and the public. ordinary prudence would not have done under the same or similar This article does not constitute legal advice and should not be circumstances. Essentially, a plaintiff must prove that the defendant construed as legal advice. For specific advice on your situation, owed them a duty, then breached that duty, and that breach was the please contact an attorney. cause of harm and damage to the plaintiff. So what does this mean to you? Generally, we all owe some general duties to others. These duties are to behave reasonably and act with ordinary care to avoid causing harm to others. As REALTORS®, you also owe more specific duties to your clients. This means that a client would likely be able to prove the duty element of a negligence claim against their REALTOR®. This also means that to avoid a breach of these duties you need to be aware of the duties and understand how they impact your interactions with your clients.