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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/17/20 9:36 PM, K. Garl Long
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      <p>Seller's is held to the standard of an attorney when drafting;
        should contact insurance carrier.</p>
      <p>KGL<br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/17/20 9:20 PM, Anthony Gibbs
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif">I’m looking for some help with
              legal research and would appreciate any guidance or
              thoughts on the following scenario:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif">Standard form 21 MLS PSA with
              financing addendum form 22A, optional clauses addendum
              22D, and inspection addendum form 35. Just under 5%
              earnest money. Both the financing contingency and the
              inspection contingency are selected. BUT, at the bottom of
              form 22D, line 12 Other is checked and the following
              language is added:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
                style="font-family:"American
                Typewriter",serif">Buyer hereby authorizes escrow
                to immediately release $50,000 of earnest money upon
                mutual acceptance directly to the Seller. This money
                shall now be considered a non-refundable deposit towards
                the purchase of the subject property.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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              style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
                style="font-family:"American
                Typewriter",serif">Inspection is for buyers
                information only. PASS/FAIL<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif">The buyer’s agent prepared the
              form and all parties signed. Seller later cited the
              inspection contingency as the reason to terminate the
              contract and demands the $50k of earnest money back. There
              is some indication that the buyer might also have had
              financing problems, but did not cite that as a reason for
              termination. Buyer understood the $50k to be
              non-refundable under any circumstances and that motivated
              them to accept the offer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif">What I am looking in to is whether
              that language, which is not standard form language but was
              added at the discretion of the parties and written in to
              the contract by the buyer’s agent, is binding despite the
              contingencies. Items (1) and (2) seem to directly
              contradict the inspection contingency and the ambiguity
              ought to be construed against the buyer, since they
              prepared the forms; and the added language ought to
              control over the standard contract provisions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif">Am I missing something? It seems
              like the buyer’s agent might have made a major blunder
              here. Any thoughts are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif">Yours, in gratitude,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"American
              Typewriter",serif">Anthony<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  Esq.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              you. I’d also appreciate you notifying me of the error.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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