Many house offers have "contingencies" (financing, inspection etc etc). These are somewhat less binding on buyer. Where I am though for a while contingency free

Many house offers have "contingencies" (financing, inspection etc etc). These are somewhat less binding on buyer. Where I am though for a while contingency free offers were being made. These are more binding. Emails however are the gotcha's. Lots of "esignature" rules mean that you don't have to actually sign an offer or acceptance anymore, but can do stuff via email. Folks DO run into trouble this way - with sometimes terrible deals agreed to via email. Kloian v. Domino’s Pizza for a funny one where they couldn't even get a formal settlement agreement, but Domino's still forced a contract.