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Real Estate Secrets: What Brokers MUST Disclose (Contaminated Soil Revealed!) #shorts

9 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, a retired licensed real estate broker (Speaker B) explains that when advertising a property—specifically an industrial site being marketed for multifamily development—the broker has a legal obligation to disclose any known contaminated soil. The broker emphasizes that failure to include this material fact in advertising is a breach of duty, and even suggests using tools like ChatGPT to verify the legality of nondisclosure. The dialogue underscores that contaminated soil is a material fact affecting property value and must be disclosed to potential buyers.

Are you in the deal room? So this, this legally, so legally they have to legally.
And I'm, I'm a, I'm a licensed real estate broker, retired. If I put, if I put advertising out there that I can do multifamily on something and it was an industrial site with dirty, dirty results, 100% my responsibility as a broker to put that in. And you can, you can go type it up, go, go put it in ChatGPT right now and say, is it legal to not disclose contaminated waste on a, on a, on a site? In the advertising of it for sale.
Contaminated what?
Contaminated soil.
Do the dictation. There you go.
When trying to advertise a property for sale to multifamily. There you go. Because again, this is, this is where you have to know the rules, right? Short answer, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Right. What counts as material fact? Contaminated soil is 100% material fact because it affects value, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. And it says right there, the seller knows about contamination. They generally have a duty to disclose it.