home purchase negotiating: But we were negotiating!! How could they sell the home!?! - 10/31/11 01:36 PM
It has happened again.  Buyers can be told, but for some reason they do not get it.  Until we have an endorsed contract, we do not have a deal.  Words mean nothing.  We had an agreement, the counter was presented, all the buyer had to do was initial the changes.  But by keeping the contract, and not returning it, she allowed the seller to have another contract submitted, and accepted, underneath her.  "But the contract says I have 48 hours to respond to a counter", she screamed.
No.  What the Florida contract says is that the contract counter offer will expire … (3 comments)