General information, not legal advice. What you may do with the details somebody writes on a sign-in sheet — call them, text them, email them, add them to a list — is governed by federal rules, by the law of your state and by your broker's own policy, and this page does not tell you what any of them require.
Build the sheet
What goes at the top
Every one of these is optional. Leave a field empty and its line is left off the sheet rather than printed blank.
Type a heading to add it; clear the box to drop it.
Paper
Your sheet
Two things worth knowing before you hit print. Browsers add their own header and footer to every printed page — usually the page title, the address of this page, the date and a page number — and they land in the margin of your sheet unless you switch them off. Every browser has that switch somewhere in its print dialog, and every one of them labels and files it differently, so look for headers and footers rather than for a particular menu. The same dialog is also where you print to PDF instead of to a printer, if you would rather keep a file than paper.
The fit is worked out for the page size above and a 12.7 mm (0.5 in) margin, which this page asks your browser to use. A print dialog can override that margin, and some printers refuse to print that close to the edge, so check the preview your printer shows you.
What this page does, and what it does not
- It prints an empty grid. There is no field anywhere on this page for a visitor's name, phone number or email address, because the sheet is filled in on paper at the door and not here.
- It works out what fits by measuring the sheet above. The printable height of the paper you picked, less the margin, less the heading and the row of column titles as they have actually come out on screen — not as a figure read off a stylesheet, because how tall a column title renders depends on whether it wraps. The sheet heading prints once, at the top, and the row of column titles repeats on every page, so the first page holds fewer lines than the ones after it and the page says both numbers. If it cannot measure the sheet, it tells you nothing about pages rather than guessing.
- It flags a column too narrow to write in, and then tries the wider page sizes and orientations to find one that would fit them all. If none would, it says so instead of suggesting something that cannot work. Legal, for instance, is longer than Letter but exactly as wide, so it never solves a width problem.
- It keeps none of the sheet. The sheet is built entirely in your browser: what you enter in the tool is not sent anywhere and is not saved, so reloading the page clears it and you start again. The page reports an anonymous count that the tool was used, and nothing you entered goes with it. The optional email form further down is separate: the address you give it is stored and used to send the toolkit and occasional updates, as the consent box there says.
- We do not draft an agreement or a disclosure here. The page prints the headings you chose and empty cells. It writes no terms of its own onto the sheet, and nothing it writes is meant to satisfy a form your state or your broker requires. The heading and the custom column are your own free text, so whatever you type there is yours, not ours.
Read next
- Paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of 47 C.F.R. §64.1200, quoted first word to last : worth reading before you call anyone whose number is on a sheet. Those three paragraphs are quoted whole, so a condition cannot be hiding in the part we left out.
- Seller net sheet calculator : the figure the owner of the listing you are holding open will ask you for.
- Agent income calculator : gross commission through the split and the cap to what reaches you.
- All rules explained for agents : the rest of the library.