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Walk It Through: The Salesman At The Door

Midnight of the third day for an installment sale, certified mail, and up to treble damages.

A salesperson comes to the house and sells an expensive water filter system on monthly payments, and the buyer signs at the kitchen table.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

One sale at a kitchen table. Cash sales, commercial telephone solicitation in detail, and suits by the attorney general are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

Words this turns on

Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.