agency

Transaction Facilitator (Rhode Island)

Under R.I. Gen. Laws chapter 5-20.6, which overrides common-law agency for residential deals (vacant land for one or two homes, or up to four units), every licensee is presumed to be a transaction facilitator unless a party gives informed written consent on the mandatory relationship disclosure to a designated client representative. A facilitator assists without representing anyone and owes only ministerial duties: showing property, preparing and conveying offers, honesty, reasonable skill and care, and accounting for funds. No agency may be created by implication.