Purchase & Sale Agreements
The core contract: price, contingencies, closing date, and what happens when one of them slips. Drafted from scratch or reviewed and redlined before you sign.
Real Estate Agreements
The deal is only as good as the paper it is written on.
Purchase agreements, land contracts, seller-financing notes, and mortgage documents, drafted or reviewed before you sign. Ohio property law is unforgiving of a document that says something other than what you agreed.
Why It Matters
A handshake closes nothing. The document does.
In an Ohio property deal, almost every promise that matters lives inside a written agreement. What is not in the document did not happen.
Most people signing a real estate agreement are using a form somebody else drafted, on a deadline, with money already committed. That is a bad combination. The clauses that decide who pays for a failed inspection, what happens if financing falls through, and who carries the risk between signing and closing are usually the ones nobody reads.
We work on the document itself. That means either drafting it around the deal you actually made, or reading the one in front of you and telling you, in plain English, what it commits you to.
- Contingencies that actually protect you, for inspection, appraisal, financing, and title
- Who bears the risk between the signature and the closing, and what happens if the property changes
- Default and remedy terms, so a missed payment or a missed date does not become a forfeiture
- Title, survey, and disclosure obligations spelled out instead of assumed
What We Draft & Review
The agreements behind an Ohio property deal.
Whether you are buying, selling, lending, or carrying the note yourself, the terms live in one of these documents.
Land Contracts
Ohio land contracts (installment sales) keep legal title with the seller while the buyer pays over time. Powerful, and unforgiving if drafted loosely. We set out the payment schedule, default terms, and what each side actually owns at every stage.
Seller Financing
When the seller carries the note, you need a promissory note and a mortgage or security instrument that work together. We draft both sides of that structure so the security matches the promise.
Mortgage & Loan Documents
Notes, mortgages, guaranties, and the closing package, reviewed line by line so the terms you were quoted are the terms you sign. See also Mortgages & Financing for the full lender-side engagement.
“Nobody reads the agreement until something goes wrong. By then it is the only thing anyone will read.”
How It Works
From document to signature.
A flat fee agreed before anything starts, and a clear path from the draft in your inbox to the closing table.
Send Us the Deal
The agreement, the term sheet, or just the outline of what you and the other side shook on. We tell you which documents the deal actually needs.
Draft or Redline
We either draft the agreement around your terms or mark up the one you were handed, with every change explained in plain English rather than left for you to decode.
Work the Terms
We take the open points back to the other side's agent or counsel. The goal is a document both sides can sign, not a win on paper that blows up the deal.
Sign and Close
Final review of the closing package so what you sign matches what you agreed, and nothing new arrives in the last twenty-four hours.
Small Business Contracts
Service agreements, MSAs, NDAs, and the everyday contracts that keep your business running and protected.
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Corporate Agreements
Vendor and supplier agreements, contracts drafted from scratch, contract audits, and the governance policies behind them.
Learn moreCommon Questions
Real estate agreement questions, answered plainly.
A standard form is a starting point, not a finished deal. It is written to be neutral and to close transactions quickly, which is not the same as protecting your position. The clauses worth changing are usually the contingencies, the default terms, and anything the parties negotiated verbally that never made it onto the page.
In an Ohio land contract, the buyer takes possession and pays the seller in installments while the seller keeps legal title until the balance is paid. It can work well when a buyer cannot get conventional financing. It goes badly when the document is vague about default, taxes, insurance, repairs, or what happens to the payments already made. The structure is only as safe as the drafting.
At minimum a promissory note setting the payment terms and a mortgage or other security instrument giving you a claim on the property if the buyer stops paying. Those two documents have to agree with each other. A note with no matching security leaves you with a promise and no property.
Either. This page is about the documents. If you want counsel through the entire purchase or sale, including title review and the closing itself, that is Purchase & Sale Transactions. If the financing is the complicated part, that is Mortgages & Financing.
You get a flat-fee proposal in writing before any work begins, scoped to the documents your deal needs. No hourly clock, and the introduction call is free.