What Happens After You Accept an Offer on a House?

Put the Contract's Dates on Your Calendar

Start with the agreement you signed. Ask the professional handling your closing to mark the effective date, deposit deadline and inspection deadline. Have them identify the financing and appraisal terms separately, including any required notices.

Use the calendar like a row of labeled folders: each deadline needs its own document and a person responsible for it. Don't use the closing date as a substitute for the deadlines before it.

The supplied Florida Realtors/Florida Bar ASIS-7x form illustrates why precision matters. Its inspection provision allows the buyer to terminate when the buyer finds the property unacceptable and delivers written notice before the inspection period expires. Its financing provision has different conditions, including good-faith and diligent effort and notice within the loan approval period.

Those are provisions from a Florida form. For your sale, have an attorney explain the actual agreement, including what happens if either side misses a date. Ask for a written deadline sheet you can keep beside the contract.

Track What's Still Between Acceptance and Funding

Ask for a written status update on the buyer's remaining conditions before making commitments that depend on receiving your proceeds.

Redfin's July 2026 analysis found that canceled pending sales equaled 14% of overall pending sales that month, seasonally adjusted. That isn't a prediction for your contract. The report counts cancellations during the month, including transactions that entered contract earlier.

The report names inspection problems, low appraisals and financing changes as reasons deals fail. Use those specific risks to shape your questions. Has the inspection response been resolved in writing? If an appraisal is required, has it been completed and accepted by the lender? Which loan conditions still need documents or approval?

Before authorizing a repair, ask who requested it, who pays and whether the agreement needs a signed change. Before booking your move, confirm the contract's possession terms and the closing professional's instructions for releasing keys.

Keep asking about the unfinished task, rather than accepting a general update that everything is moving along.

Match Your Cash Flow Deals Agreement to the Offer You Choose

The Fast Cash Offer is an as-is sale to Cash Flow Deals with no repairs for you to make. Its inspection period is 15 business days. Closing: 30 business days; the seller helps pick the date.

For the Premium Cash Offer: More money. A pre-approved FHA or conventional buyer we already have buys directly from you. Its inspection period is 30 business days. Closing: 45 to 60 business days (2 to 3 months); the seller helps pick the date. Only lender-required work is covered. We cover repair costs, and we figure out a way, so nothing comes out of your pocket.

For both offers: The number is agreed before any work starts, and it changes only if you agree. The one exception: if something structural surfaces that was not visible or disclosed before we signed — foundation issues, hidden moisture, old wiring, cast-iron drain failure — we re-cost it and bring the number back to you. You decide. You can walk away. We disclose what we know at offer time so this almost never happens.

For the Premium Cash Offer: If your buyer's loan falls through, that is our problem, not yours. You can still take our Fast Cash Offer, at its own number.

Nothing is binding until a written contract is signed by both sides; you can take it to an attorney first.