New TAR Forms for Residential Leasing, Management, Seller's Disclosures and Others Take Effect on January 1, 2014

San Antonio Texas Real Estate Attorney Trey Wilson wrote:

The Texas Association of Realtors has revised many of its existing forms and released other new ones, which take effect Jan. 1, 2014. Among the revised and new residential and property management forms are:

•  Residential Lease – TAR 2001
• Residential Lease Application – TAR 2003
• Pet Agreement – TAR 2004
• Extension of Residential Lease – TAR 2005
• Residential Lease Inventory and Condition Form – TAR 2006
• Residential Lease for a Multi-Family Property Unit – TAR 2011
• Residential Leasing and Property Management Agreement – TAR 2201
• Addendum for Authorization to Act for Owner Before Owners’ Association – TAR 2205
• Notice Terminating Right of Occupancy – TAR 2208
• Notice to Tenant of Change in Management and Accountability for Security Deposit - TAR 2210
• Model Tenant Selection Criteria Form  
• Early Termination of Residential Lease – TAR 2012
• Notice of Termination of Residential Leasing and Property Management Agreement – TAR 2222
• In addition, the Agreement for Application Deposit and Hold on Property (TAR 2009) has been removed from the TAR Forms Library.

A summary of the changes can be found HERE.

Headquartered in Austin, the TAR is the state-level organization for REALTORS® in Texas. It was established in 1920 and has grown to more than 80,000 members. TAR is the largest professional-membership association in Texas.