What Is a Contingency? A contingency is a potential occurrence of a negative event in the future, such as an economic recession, natural disaster, fraudulent activity, terrorist attack, or a pandemic.
The buyer has to provide one, or more, signed Contingency Removal forms. Each one removing, or more, of the contract contingencies. Once the buyer has removed all of them in writing, they may no longer receive a refund of their deposit.
A contingency is an unexpected event that may happen. A contingency plan is a documented strategy that businesses use to resume normal operations in the event of such circumstances occurring. Businesses require contingency plans so they can deal effectively with these kinds of eventualities.
A contingency plan is a course of action designed to help an organization respond effectively to a significant future incident, event or situation that may or may not happen.
Inspection Contingency The “inspection” contingency allows buyers to do many investigations. It covers the buyers' physical inspection and the title report or homeowner's association documents. Generally, buyers have 17 days to remove the inspection contingency. However, the time period can be changed in the agreement.
Do not remove inspection contingency until you are satisfied with the inspection, results, repairs, etc. Do not remove appraisal contingency until the lender tells you no appraisal is needed or after you received the appraisal and lender says to go ahead and remove.