Residential Purchase Agreement

THE TENANT PROTECTION ACT. After a tenant has occupied a residential unit for 12 months, a landlord may terminate only for JUST CAUSE, stated in the notice, with a cure opportunity for curable breaches and RELOCATION…

CALIFORNIA'S SECURITY DEPOSIT RULES, and they changed recently: since July 2024 the cap is generally ONE MONTH'S RENT whether or not the unit is furnished, with a narrow small-landlord exception.

An owner ending a California residential periodic tenancy must give at least 60 DAYS' written notice, and 30 days where occupancy is under one year or on a qualifying sale to a natural-person buyer who will reside…

California's NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE procedure under a deed of trust, which is how nearly all California foreclosures proceed. Relevant to any purchase or deed with a trust deed in the chain.

CALIFORNIA REQUIRES A REAL ESTATE TRANSFER DISCLOSURE STATEMENT for most transfers of residential property of one to four units, delivered to the buyer as soon as practicable before transfer of title.

California: Civil Code 1091 requires the specified written, subscribed transfer or operation of law, including an agent authorized in writing; 1092 supplies a short grant form.

The statutory form of the transfer disclosure statement. Use the statutory form; it is prescribed, not suggested.

Section 20-327b covers one to four dwelling units, including condominiums and cooperatives, subject to specified exemptions.

WHO MAY TAKE AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT IN CONNECTICUT, and the list is wider than a notary: a judge of a court of record or a family support magistrate, a clerk or deputy clerk of a court having a seal, a town clerk, a NOTARY…

The condition report creates NO new implied or express warranties and does NOT require the seller to obtain inspections or tests.

The quiet title action to settle competing claims to real or personal property. The route when a title search turns up a cloud the parties cannot clear by agreement.

Provisions bearing on adverse claims to title. Read alongside section 47-31 when possession and record title diverge.

CONNECTICUT REGULATES SECURITY DEPOSITS CLOSELY. The section caps the deposit, requires it to be held in escrow at a financial institution, requires ANNUAL INTEREST at the rate it prescribes, and sets deadlines for…

The requirements a listing or brokerage agreement must meet before a broker can sue for a commission. Relevant whenever a transaction involves a commission dispute or an agreement drafted without these elements.

The Department of Consumer Protection publishes the information and material behind the disclosure regime, including the current report form. Confirm the current form with the Department rather than reusing an old copy.

EVERY agreement to purchase residential real estate requiring a condition report must itself CONTAIN a requirement that the seller credit the buyer FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS at closing if the report is not furnished.

A conveyance or lease by a grantor who has been ousted by another's entry and possession is VOID unless made to the person actually in possession. Relevant to any sale where someone else occupies the property adversely.

How a rental agreement's term runs and how it is terminated, including the notice periods. A defective notice defeats a Delaware eviction; follow the section rather than a generic template.

Fixes which transfers of residential real property of one to four dwelling units are covered by the District's seller disclosure chapter and lists the exceptions, including transfers by a fiduciary, foreclosure…

For a covered condominium resale by an owner other than the declarant, furnish the instruments and certificate by the tenth business day after the purchaser executes the contract.

Lists what the Mayor-approved residential real property disclosure statement must contain, including the results of lead tests on the water supply, lead-bearing plumbing and the lead service line serving the property,…

Covered transactions require a bona fide tenant opportunity to purchase; current section .02 also addresses appraisal and certification procedures and when tenant rights vest.

Addresses what happens when conditions change after the disclosure statement is delivered. A District contract should provide expressly for an updated statement before closing.

Lists the transfers that fall outside TOPA, including certain transfers by operation of law, to a government, in foreclosure, or among the owners themselves.

Requires notification of a release from an underground storage tank. It pairs with 8-113.02 where the disclosure answer is yes.

Security deposits and advance rent: check permitted custody, interest, disclosures and exceptions.

The notice periods for ending a tenancy with no fixed term, by rental period. Get the period right; it is the most common Florida eviction defect.

Review each applicable Florida disclosure and its timing. Mandatory HOA membership invokes section 720.401 and its separate cancellation rule.

Condominium developer sales and nondeveloper resales have different disclosure packages and conspicuous contract clauses.

Fixed-term agreements may require reciprocal end-term notice of 30 to 60 days. Landlord notices use the manner prescribed in 83.56(4).

Florida's DOCUMENTARY STAMP TAX on a deed, charged on the consideration, including the amount of any mortgage the grantee takes subject to.

Subsection (5) requires the RADON GAS NOTIFICATION, in the statute's prescribed words, at or before execution of any contract for sale or any rental agreement for a building.

A seller of residential real property must give the prescribed flood disclosure at or before sales-contract execution. The form asks about known flood damage during ownership, flood-insurance claims and assistance.

Section 10-702 covers residential property with four or fewer single-family units, subject to its exemptions. The vendor may use the Commission's disclosure statement or disclaimer statement.

Maryland DSD chapter export, read from the publisher-designated repository default branch; publication 2026-04-25 was current there when checked 2026-09-14.

Includes a certificate of mailing and separate choices to decline or make a binding offer. Its mailing-date instruction must be read with section 8-119(c)(4), which uses delivery by the landlord;

Distinguishes the owner counteroffer from the tenant acceptance or rejection. The tenant response period runs from receipt.

Sets the disclosures the vendor must give on the initial sale of a lot in a larger homeowners association development and the purchaser's cancellation right.

On the resale of a lot in a Maryland homeowners association the seller must give the purchaser the disclosures listed in this section, including the current assessment, unpaid amounts, the governing documents and any…

A landlord may not take a security deposit above one month's rent per dwelling unit, regardless of the number of tenants, with a narrow exception allowing two months where the tenant qualifies for utility assistance,…

Distinguishes the notice solicitation from a tenant offer, includes proof-of-mailing fields, and uses receipt for the tenant offer deadline. Read section 8-119(d) for the conditional trigger and matching sales price;

Recovering possession after a tenancy at will has been terminated. The step after the section 12 notice.

The notice required to terminate a tenancy at will: generally the rental period or thirty days, whichever is longer. A defective notice defeats the eviction; follow the section rather than a generic template.

Implementation provision: the department prepares the Massachusetts Contingency Plan and sets response-action permit classes.

Massachusetts treats the fact or suspicion that property is psychologically impacted, including a felony, suicide or homicide there, as NOT A MATERIAL FACT REQUIRED TO BE DISCLOSED, and bars any statutory or common law…

THE STRICTEST SECURITY DEPOSIT STATUTE IN THIS COLLECTION, and the one that generates Massachusetts landlord liability.

Review 760 CMR 74 before accepting an inspection waiver or restrictive offer. The defined auction exception and section 74.04 exceptions matter: the rule exempts transactions whose first offer or purchase agreement was…

The derelict fee statute: a conveyance of land abutting a way or watercourse carries the grantor's fee interest in the way to its centre line unless the instrument clearly says otherwise.

Massachusetts: 183-1 treats an authorized owner's or attorney's executed and delivered deed as sufficient without another ceremony, subject to 183-4.

For tenants covered by section 2 of the Anti-Eviction Act, a lease provision permitting termination or nonrenewal without statutory good cause, or waiving other rights under the Act, is against public policy and…

Where a single-family home carries solar panels, the seller must complete a property condition disclosure statement with a solar rider giving the installation details, ownership or lease status, and the transfer terms.

Before any judgment of possession under the Anti-Eviction Act, except nonpayment of rent under subsection a.

Delivering the off-site conditions notice is a complete defense to a claim that the seller failed to disclose off-site conditions, even if the municipal lists are incomplete or unavailable.

Current publisher text was unavailable during the 2026-09-14 review. This link is not a completed source reading. Obtain the current document and assess its applicability before relying on it.

Current publisher text was unavailable during the 2026-09-14 review. This link is not a completed source reading. Obtain the current document and assess its applicability before relying on it.

A county recording officer may not record a deed unless the fee is paid and, where an exemption or partial exemption is claimed, the statutory affidavit of consideration is annexed.

Seller of newly constructed residential real estate, not the broker, must notify the purchaser that municipal lists of off-site conditions are available for the municipality and any within one-half mile, AT THE TIME OF…

Before raising the rent by more than 5% or refusing to renew a residential lease, the landlord must give written notice of 30, 60 or 90 days depending on how long the tenant has occupied the unit or the length of the…

Official seven-page property condition disclosure form required by DOS beginning July 1, 2025; printed footer Rev. 02/25.

The Department of State's mandatory agency disclosure under Real Property Law § 443, defining seller's agent, buyer's agent, broker's agent, dual agent and dual agent with designated sales agent, with the acknowledgment…

The joint grantor and grantee return Tax Law § 1409 requires to be filed with the recording officer for every conveyance outside New York City, carrying the transfer tax computation, any exemption claimed, the mansion…

Line-by-line instructions for the return that must accompany every deed recorded outside New York City, including who signs, the exemption codes in Schedule B, the credit line mortgage certificate and the certification…

A security deposit remains the tenant's money, is held in trust by the landlord and may not be mingled with the landlord's own funds;

No deposit or advance may exceed one month's rent; the landlord must offer a move-in inspection and give a written itemised statement of any move-out condition, and must return the deposit with an itemised statement of…

Names Article 14 the Property Condition Disclosure Act. This short-title provision does not define transaction scope or exemptions; the latest publisher refresh was unavailable.

Lists Article 14 transfer exemptions, including specified court, fiduciary, co-owner, family, foreclosure, government and previously uninhabited new-construction transfers.

Section 5302.30 covers specified transfers of one-to-four-unit residential property and lists exemptions, including qualified inheritance, prior occupancy, fiduciary and new-construction transfers.

OHIO'S SECURITY DEPOSIT RULE HAS AN INTEREST TRAP. Any deposit exceeding fifty dollars or one month's rent, whichever is greater, bears FIVE PER CENT INTEREST ANNUALLY on the excess if the tenant stays six months or…

An unrecorded deed or land contract is fraudulent as against a subsequent bona fide purchaser. Record in the county where the land lies, promptly.

Requires the administrator of the Medicaid estate recovery program to prescribe a form on which a surviving beneficiary of a transfer on death designation affidavit, or the beneficiary's representative, states whether…

Ohio's LAND INSTALLMENT CONTRACT statute, which prescribes mandatory contents for a residential land contract and is strictly applied.

OHIO'S TRANSFER ON DEATH DESIGNATION AFFIDAVIT lets real property pass outside probate to named beneficiaries.

What the beneficiary records after the owner's death to confirm the transfer. The step families miss, leaving title unmarketable.

Sections 5311.25 through .27 address developer or agent condominium sales, subject to section .24. Its ordinary-owner exemption requires a sale outside the developer common promotional plan;

Completing the form does not discharge disclosure duties arising elsewhere, including the common-law duty to avoid fraud and misrepresentation. Do not let a seller treat the form as a ceiling on what must be said.

The association must be organized as the chapter requires. Background for assessing who a buyer will be dealing with after settlement.

The association's powers, including assessments, rules, and liens for unpaid assessments. The lien power is the one that shows up at settlement as a payoff.

Delivery may be by personal delivery, first class mail, certified mail return receipt requested, or facsimile to the buyer or the buyer's agent, and delivery to one prospective buyer counts as delivery to all intending…

A disclosure may be amended in writing before the agreement is signed by both parties. After signing, section 7307's notification duty is the route instead.

Names Pennsylvania's Uniform Condominium Act, which governs condominiums created after its effective date.

Local ordinances may not treat a condominium differently from a physically identical non-condominium development. Useful against a municipality imposing condominium-specific requirements.

How withdrawable real estate is removed from a flexible condominium. A buyer should know whether adjacent land can still be pulled out of the project.

Names the Uniform Planned Community Act, which governs planned communities, the common form for townhouse and single-family homeowner association developments.

The disclosures a seller must make before an executory contract for conveyance is signed. Omissions carry statutory penalties and a right to cancel; work through the list.

Property Code 5.008 covers residential property with no more than one dwelling unit and contains specific transfer exemptions.

What may be recorded and the acknowledgment or sworn proof required. Recording is what protects the grantee; build it into the closing.

THE NOTICE TO VACATE is the prerequisite to a Texas eviction: generally at least THREE DAYS unless the lease provides otherwise, delivered as the section allows. A defective notice defeats the suit;

Texas regulates EXECUTORY CONTRACTS FOR CONVEYANCE, its contract-for-deed regime, with mandatory disclosures, an annual accounting statement, and penalties for non-compliance.

Current in-person real-property recording identification requirements and accepted identification forms.

An unrecorded conveyance is VOID as to a creditor or subsequent purchaser for value without notice, but binding between the parties and on those with notice. The reason to record promptly.

Lists the transfers exempt from the Residential Property Disclosure Act, including transfers by a fiduciary in the administration of an estate or trust, foreclosure and deed-in-lieu transfers, and transfers between…

All publisher versions are preserved with their effective-date headings. Determine the operative version and transition conditions for the matter; do not treat future amendments as present law.

Covered resale contracts must disclose the community, certificate obligation, cancellation right, update option and settlement cutoff. The statute specifies disclosure contents, not one verbatim contract form.

Sets who must request and deliver the resale certificate and the time allowed, and ties the purchaser's cancellation period to delivery.

Notwithstanding the exemptions in § 55.1-702, an owner of a residential dwelling unit who has actual knowledge that the property was previously used to manufacture methamphetamine and has not been cleaned up in…

The owner must give the purchaser notification of the chapter's disclosures, which the Real Estate Board provides on its website and which must be current as of the date of delivery, before ratification of the purchase…

A security deposit may not exceed two months' periodic rent and, on the later of termination of the tenancy or the tenant's vacating, may be applied only to accrued rent including reasonable late charges specified in…

Either party may terminate a week-to-week tenancy by written notice served at least seven days before the next rent due date and a month-to-month tenancy by written notice at least 30 days before the next rent due date…

Lists everything the resale certificate must contain, including assessments and their due dates, reserve study information, unsatisfied judgments, pending litigation, architectural approvals outstanding and any…

THE PERIOD AGREED IN THE RATIFIED CONTRACT CONTROLS. Absent one, the purchaser gets THREE DAYS, from ratification if the resale certificate or unavailability notice came before it, from receipt if after;