The sales agreement or promise of sale indenture

Sign a sales agreement should not be done lightly, given that it contains financial covenants that may be burdensome for non-compliance.

But the compromise also has advantages for the buyer who is not negligible: within 7 days of withdrawal, which allows you to block a deal on a favorite, but then think clearly, suspensive clauses conventional (non-receipt of credits) but watch out for possible answers.

And do not hesitate to add clauses like "discovery of latent defects after the sale, neighborhood nuisances prior to the sale and not reported by the transferor (eg serious dispute with a neighbor particularly aggressive, abnormal noise) pollution latent in the soil by hydrocarbon and waste buried (the pollution is very expensive) short, cover you in writing.

Caution: do you communicate the draft bill of sale by the notary at least one week prior to the signature, and read carefully. In the office of the notary, the date of signature, it is not easy to return a contentious issue! You will be subject to pressure from the notary and the seller! We learned, luckily two days before signing a building (a mill on the beautiful Sarthe) that we would learn was actually property dispute with the state for over 10 years.

The notary, to still be covered, had slipped into the bill of sale a letter from the Prefect recalling the causes of the dispute. We went to the appointment of signature, but luckily after consulting a lawyer! For both the notary, the estate agent and owner, we have enormous pressure by threatening not to pay the deposit, but more exercise penalties. We have kept good, strong advice of our lawyer, but without it we bought a good dot the ground still belonged to the state, and therefore inalienable, hence the dispute with the owner, he had issue careful to conceal. By the letter of the prefect in the contract, we could not plead ignorance of the fact, and if we had not insisted on a copy before, under pressure, we would be assigned. We won the trial that followed.
Be very careful, the blow of heart should not turn into a nightmare, but a written and signed binding on you heavily.