When you’re working in an online document, the “undo” function can be an invaluable tool. So can a contingency clause when you’re looking to buy or sell a home. Real estate contingencies provide a way ...

Amit Haller is the Co-Founder & CEO of Reali, a high-tech, high-touch real estate company founded in 2016. Anyone in the market to buy or sell a home knows the adage “location, location, location” ...

Title insurance is boring, but Allied Title & Escrow is here to decode the jargon and make it (somewhat) more interesting. This biweekly feature will explore the mundane (but very necessary!) world of ...

Interested in an extra layer of protection when buying or selling property? Make sure you know about contingencies. Sometimes these are clauses written into your real estate contract or addenda to ...

Let's say a company manager gets transferred and must move to a new city to start work on the first of September. Her three kids need to be in school for the fall quarter and her writer husband also ...

Q We bought a house four months ago. Because there was a lot of interest in the property, our real estate agent advised us not to include a contingency for a home inspection in our offer. The agent ...

It is common practice when purchasing a single-family home to include a physical-inspection contingency in the purchase agreement. A contingency is a condition of the purchase. The physical-inspection ...

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Buyer’s agents are reluctant to recommend that their clients waive all contingencies, but they also acknowledge that sellers may reject offers that include them. (Carrie May for The Washington Post) ...

QUESTION:We have been looking for a new home since the spring. There have been at least a half a dozen properties that we liked and made a bid on. Each one has had multiple bids and our offer was not ...

Billy Cooper has inspected homes in the Louisville area for 20 years, arming buyers with the information they need to negotiate repairs with sellers or walk away entirely from problematic homes. And ...