FREE WEBINAR

Buying a Rent Roll?
What Every Agency Principal Needs to Know Before Signing

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17 July 2025 at 10:30AM AEST

This session is for you if:

You’re a real estate principal or agency owner ready to expand through acquisition

You’re a sales agent or PM stepping into ownership and thinking about buying your first rent roll

You're a growth-minded agency leader who’s sick of wasting time on tyre-kickers and wants to secure quality rent rolls the smart way

You’re not 100% confident in what to look for when assessing a rent roll or seller

You’ve heard horror stories of buyers getting burned—and don’t want to be next

You’re unsure what your contract should include to actually protect your purchase price

You’ve been told “just do a spot check” and you’re wondering what else you might be missing

Why Do You Need It?

Buying a rent roll can be one of the fastest ways to grow your real estate agency if you do it right. In this practical, real-world session, we’ll unpack:

The 5 critical due diligence mistakes buyers make

The truth about retentions and how to avoid overpaying

Contract tips to protect you from moments that ruin deals

Pros and cons of having the seller stay on

How our real estate agency lawyers can help with your next acquisition

Real-life cases we handled that you can learn from

Show up live and get our Due Diligence Checklist

Straight from our lawyer’s desk, this is the exact checklist we use when reviewing rent roll purchases for our clients and includes:

A rent roll specific list of information that you will need to check

The necessary details about business operations you need

An effective way to catalogue the potential rent roll

And so much more

Meet Your Hosts

Kristen Porter

Kristen Porter has Real Estate in her blood. As third generation, Kristen was born into the real-estate industry and has a passion for it that no other lawyer has. Kristen is an expert in business and privacy law for the real-estate industry and loves helping agencies just like yours. With over 18 years of legal experience, She has a proven track record of helping agencies start and grow their agencies, buy & sell rent rolls, getting ready for sale, and assisting with matters related to shareholder agreements, employment law, commission arrangements, franchising, and all things real estate business and privacy. 

CEO & CMO at O*NO Legal

Luke helps real estate agencies succeed by ensuing their deals are watertight. Leading our mergers and acquisitions team, Luke manages multiple rent roll purchases for clients on a daily basis – because of this he has his finger on the pulse of what is happening with multiples, retentions and all thigs special conditions for rent roll contracts.

Luke also has a keen interest in technology and how it can be harnessed to improve the delivery of legal services, for both lawyer and client. Luke holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology as well as a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law.

Outside of work, Luke is weightlifting, running, and reading history.

Associate at O*NO Legal

Luke Shumack

We help real estate agency and property management principals to shield their assets, future proof their relationships, expand faster, and plan effective exit strategies so that they can create a valuable asset that is there for them tomorrow. Unlike other law firms, we are focused exclusively on tackling the challenges faced by clients in the real estate industry. We are committed to providing innovative and effective solutions that cater to all agencies, regardless of their age, size, or budget. In pursuit of this, we are constantly breaking the mould of traditional lawyering.

About O*NO Legal.

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Buying a Rent Roll?
What Every Agency Principal Needs to Know Before Signing

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Boring legal stuff: Whilst this webinar has been designed and prepared by experts and lawyers, this is general advice only and cannot be relied upon as legal or valuation advice as it does not take into consideration your exact agency circumstances. This information is for guidance only as there are many variables in your agency. Contact us to find out if any of these variables apply to you. Whilst we may provide high level advice in live group sessions, you are not covered by professional legal privilege in those settings and anything sensitive or potentially litigious should only be discussed privately to maintain privilege. When we have 1 on 1 sessions with you, those sessions are regarded as legal advice. PS - congratulations if you have read this far, you must love legal disclaimers or are a sucker for punishment.