https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/12/29/when-a-dual-agency-sale-goes-awry-and-the-talk-turns-to-legal-counsel/

Q: Regarding your column on Dec. 14, 2021, on The Mercury News and East Bay Times websites, “When buyers quickly call off the deal, then refuse to sign a cancellation form”:

The sale of our home fell apart. All the purchase proposals presented were noncontingent. According to our seller’s agent, a nonrefundable offer renders the deposit nonrefundable. Yet, the disposition of the rescinding homebuyers’ earnest money deposit is in dispute. The “lack of disclosure” obfuscation from these canceling homebuyers is irrefutable. These homebuyers had our home-selling questionnaires, reports and inspections days before drafting their purchase offer.