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Show Contracts Should Be in Writing and in Duplicate When you sign a contract for the purchase of a home, the building of a home or a preliminary agreement for purchase, you should demand a copy of the contract and insist that you receive one. This not only protects you from any change in the contract If dealing deal-ing with a dishonest contractor or broker, but it also is protection against misunderstanding. The safe method of doing business busi-ness is by giving a copy of the contract con-tract to every person signing it; this I should be done in every instance. Do your business aloug safe business lines and you will have no cause for complaint. com-plaint. Many times In dealing with a rerl esttife broker, one whom you have had considerable dealings with in the past, you are Inclined to sign the contract con-tract and tell him to complete It or fill It In later when he gets time. This Is poor business, and one which sooner or later will result in a very serious situation. The broker may be absolutely honest, but through a "misunderstanding "mis-understanding make a very radical error for which you may be held strictly strict-ly In account. All agreements, contracts or business transactions should be in writing, signed in duplicate and complete. Do not under any condition leave any detail to verbal agreement. |