Lead Paint Disclosure Rules for Real Estate TransactionsThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) enforce efforts to ensure that the public receives information to prevent lead poisoning in homes that may contain lead-based paint hazards. Most home buyers and renters must receive information on lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards during sales and rentals of housing built before 1978. Buyers and renters must receive specific information on lead-based paint in the housing as well as the Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home pamphlet. Sellers, landlords, and their agents are responsible for providing this information to the buyer or renter before sale or lease. Real Estate Notification & Disclosure Rule (1018 Rule) The Disclosure Rule requires sellers, lessors and agents to comply with certain requirements when selling or leasing housing built before 1978. The Disclosure Rule requires that, before a purchaser or lessee is obligated under any contract to purchase or lease target housing, certain requirements must be met. These requirements include the following:
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Pre-Renovation Education Rule (TSCA 406b Rule) EPA regulations require renovators, working for compensation, to distribute a pamphlet to owners and occupants of most housing built prior to 1978 before commencing renovation activity. The pamphlet, entitled Renovate Right, discusses basic facts about lead and your health, how to choose a contractor if you are a property owner, what tenants, and parents/guardians of a child in a child care facility of school should consider, how to prepare for the renovation or repair job, what to look for during and after the job, and where to get more information.
Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program Disclosure Booklet
To report problems concerning disclosure, click on link below.Report a potential violation of the Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Rule directly to the EPA (for use by the General Public) Tip and Complaint Form (fillable) - For Local Health Departments to report a potential violation of the Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Rule What is leadLead-Based Paint Warning Statement "Every purchaser of any interest in residential real property on which a residential dwelling was built prior to 1978 is notified that such property may present exposure to lead from lead-based paint that may place young children at risk of developing lead poisoning.
Is leadNo. The law does not require an owner to conduct or pay for an inspection. A seller must, however, give buyers 10 days to inspect the property for lead. Nothing in the rule requires an owner to remove lead-based paint or lead hazards from the property.
Is leadFederal law requires a property owner or seller to inform new tenants and/or buyers of known lead-based paint and lead-based paint hazards before most sales or leases. Most private housing, public housing, federally-owned housing, and housing receiving federal assistance are affected by this rule.
Is a leadThe seller of any interest in residential real property is required to provide the buyer with any information on lead-based paint hazards from risk assessments or inspections in the seller's possession and notify the buyer of any known lead-based paint hazards.
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