Someone required to reserve the motor we be selling so they give us a deposit. We cashed it. Is it wrong?

So I'm selling a car, and they required to give us a check so they could reserve the motor, so no one else would buy it. So they we wrote on a piece of dissertation exactly, with both of our signatures.

"This is a deposit for the 2004 Honda Civic. It is a check for $500.00."

This it have the check number, and the the price of the car.

We cashed the check and they concluded up not wanting to buy the car. Legally can I hold on to the money they gave me, or am I entitled to endow with it back because she didn't buy the sports car.

Selling and owning cars?



Answers:    I see all these answers above that start stale with "Legally"....

"Legally" a binding contract (which is what it sounds approaching you have) needs to be examined by a LAWYER. If it IS a justifiably binding contract that includes something about the deposit human being "non-refundable if all language are met and customer backs out", or have terms approaching "If customer backs out deposit will be kept due to loss of sale", later you are safe.

Remember that if you have an oral agreement that the deposit was to hold it while the customer tries to safe and sound financing, their argument may hold up in court if they can prove that they couldn't procure financing.

Exact wording of your contract wishes to be studied by a lawyer. Even a napkin is a binding contract if its worded right and signed by both party.

How does a signed agreement work?


Legally you don't, it's called earnest money. they lose it when they don't want something.

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