Contingencies & Deadlines

Inspection, appraisal, financing, and sale-of-home conditions: the day each one expires and what passing that day without notice costs you.

Contingencies & Deadlines September 27, 2026 Due Diligence Period Real Estate: What to Order, and When A ten-day due diligence period does not hold ten working days. Subtract the lender's fee restriction and the lab clocks, then order in this sequence. 16 min read
Contingencies & Deadlines August 18, 2026 Real Estate Contingencies: What Each One Actually Buys Inspection, appraisal, financing, sale-of-home: four conditions, four triggers, and three standard forms that disagree on who has to speak first. 11 min read
Contingencies & Deadlines August 17, 2026 Home Purchase Contract Deadlines: The 45-Day Map Four standard purchase contracts, four different answers to one question: what happens on the day a deadline passes and nobody sends you a notice. 13 min read

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A mechanic's lien recorded in 2009 surfaced on the title commitment six days before closing, and that purchase ended there. The second one, two years later, went through — but only because Ellis Tran had by then learned to open Schedule B on the day it arrives instead of the day before signing. He is neither an agent nor a loan officer, recommends no lender and no loan product, and is paid nothing by anyone involved in a transaction. Each page names the rule it leans on — a CFPB regulation section, an ALTA form number, a state's own disclosure form — and links the original, so the wording can be checked against whatever your own file actually says.

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