C.A.R. Form RRRR — the seller response
The other half of the repair conversation. The detail that decides most repair negotiations is what counts as an answer and what counts as a new offer.
Why this is where deals quietly stall
Both sides frequently read a partial agreement as a resolution. The buyer believes four repairs are secured; the seller believes the matter is closed. Neither is correct, and the misunderstanding usually surfaces at the final walkthrough, when the work is not done and there is no time left to fix it.
The remedy is unglamorous: whatever the parties land on gets written down and signed before the investigation contingency is removed, not after.
Money instead of work
Offering a credit rather than doing the work is a common seller response and often the one that closes the gap, because it ends the seller’s involvement. It brings the lender into the conversation, since a credit changes the figures the loan was approved against.
The response has no clock, but the buyer does
Nothing in the purchase agreement requires the seller to answer a repair request within any particular period, or at all. What is running is the buyer’s investigation contingency — 17 days from acceptance by default — and it runs whether or not a response ever arrives.
The practical effect is that delay is a position. A seller who waits until day 15 to reply to a request sent on day 8 has handed the buyer a choice between accepting the answer and removing the contingency on trust, or acting on the contingency with very little time to think. Buyer’s agents who set an internal reply-by date, and treat silence past it as a decision, keep that from becoming a surprise.
Forms this touches
Named so you know which document the conversation ends in. Their text is not reproduced here.
- RRRR — Seller Response and Buyer Reply
- RR — Request for Repair
Questions that come up
Does a seller have to use this form to respond?
A seller does not have to respond at all. When they do, this is the form built for it.
Is a partial agreement binding on the items the seller accepted?
Treat it as a counter until the buyer agrees in writing. Relying on part of an unaccepted response is how agreed repairs turn out not to have been agreed.
Describe the change in plain English
Amendly drafts the California amendment or addendum for your deal from a sentence. You review every line before it goes anywhere.
Draft your first amendmentRelated in this guide
- C.A.R. Form RR — Request for RepairWhat the C.A.R. Request for Repair does, and the paragraph of the purchase agreement saying the seller need not answer it at all.
- Repair credits after a California inspectionWhat a California seller must do after a repair request, what they can ignore, and which document actually changes the contract.
- The final walkthrough in CaliforniaCalifornia’s final walkthrough happens within five days of closing and is expressly not a contingency. What that means when it finds a problem.
Where this comes from
This page describes how California residential transactions typically work. It is general information, not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for an attorney on a specific deal. Amendly is not a law firm. Forms are named and described here; their text is not reproduced. Amendly is not affiliated with or endorsed by the California Association of REALTORS® or any state agency.