Contingencies, and the deadline that calls you
A contingency is a condition the deal depends on, with a date it has to be met by. REHL rings your bell as each one approaches instead of waiting for you to go and look.
Adding one
- Open the deal and use Add on the Contingencies card.
- Pick the kind: inspection, appraisal, financing, HOA review, title review, survey, lead paint, sale of other home, attorney review, insurance, or other.
- Type the deadline, or leave it blank and let REHL fill it in.
If you leave the deadline blank, REHL works it out from the acceptance date on the deal plus your brokerage's default window for that kind of contingency. It rolls the landing day off weekends and federal holidays the way the contract does, so a ten-day period that lands on a Saturday shows Monday. A date REHL derived is a suggestion, and you can change it. No acceptance date on the deal, or no default set for that kind, means no date is filled in.
What you actually get told
For every open contingency with a deadline, REHL rings the bell of the agent who owns the deal four times: seven days out, three days out, one day out, and once it is overdue. Each rung fires once. A contingency entered five days before its deadline starts at the three-day rung rather than replaying the seven-day one.
Marking a contingency satisfied or waived silences it immediately, even mid-ladder. Extending a deadline starts the alerts over from the new date, so a contingency you granted more time on rings again as the new date gets close.
Who gets the alert?
The agent who owns the deal. If nobody owns it, it goes to the brokerage owner. The alerts are bell notifications only. REHL does not text or email a deadline.
Where do the default windows come from?
Your brokerage sets them per contingency kind. Inspection, financing, and appraisal are the ones that ship with a default. Kinds like survey, lead paint, and other have no universal window, so REHL leaves those blank rather than inventing a date.
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