The stack of paperwork on a house is just that, a stack. You can certainly request the paperwork before signing it, but you'll be spending a week reading legal

The stack of paperwork on a house is just that, a stack. You can certainly request the paperwork before signing it, but you'll be spending a week reading legalese. Even then, negotiating terms is going to take time too. In a hot market, the seller is more incentivized to just go with the next highest bidder and skip the legal negotiating that they themselves may never have read either. I'm not saying you are wrong, but it's never really done for a reason.