Prohibits single-agent dual agency in certain real property agreements; requires representation agreements for certain brokers; allows buyers and tenants to negotiate brokers' fees; prohibits landlords, lessors, sub-lessors, and grantors from requiring a tenant to pay brokers' fees as a condition of entering into a lease agreement.
Requires gas and electric utilities to make available to landlords or lessors, upon request of prospective tenants or lessees, information concerning gas and electric charges incurred for residential rental premises.
Prohibits any lessor or agent of a lessor from reporting to any consumer reporting agency, and prohibits consumer reporting agencies from maintaining such information.
Prohibits a landlord, lessor, sub-lessor, rental broker, real estate agent, or apartment rental clearinghouse from requesting from a potential lessee or a consumer reporting agency a consumer report for the purposes of evaluating a rental application; provides penalties for violations.