[WSBARP] Vacant Land Purchase & Sale Agreement Form 25 Question re: lack of buyer remedies

[Schmidt & Yee]

Hello -
I am looking for some insight or direction with regard to the total lack of buyer remedies in the Washington Form 25 Vacant Land Purchase & Sale Agreement.  There undoubtedly would be situations where a seller would breach the sale agreement (perhaps back out of a sale), but the form is void of remedies for the buyer.  Is the buyer left with no remedies? Are agents or lawyers writing in remedies for buyer on addendums? Or does buyer just have to look to case law for remedies and, if so, would the buyer be entitled to specific performance?  The forms were all updated in February this year and I can find old case law addressing provisions in old forms, but nothing about this new form (nor any treatises discussing this change.

Has anyone had to deal with this issue yet?  Thank you.
Pam Yee
Schmidt & Yee, PC
503-642-7641
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