09/03/2026
If you are a landowner reviewing a contract from a developer here are two things worth knowing before you sign.
First, if a developer hands you a simple boilerplate raw land contract, that is a red flag. The entitlement process is long, political, and complicated. Any developer who actually does this for a living has their own contract built specifically for that process. A generic template signals they may not have real experience.
Second and most importantly, look at what happens to the earnest money if they fail to get your property approved.
Some developers write contracts that allow them to terminate and get their earnest money back if they cannot get the approvals. That means they face zero consequences for failing to do their job while you lose months of time with your property off the market.
At Allied Development if we cannot get your property approved and we cannot close, that earnest money goes to you. Not back to us.
That is how we write our contracts. Because our expertise is in getting properties approved and we stand behind that.
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