"Notify in writing" is variously interpreted...
<snip> It should be a law that sales agents must clearly inform the customer of the recession period instead of it being hidden in the fine print.
I don't disagree, but the law in all 50 states (...only the rescission time period itself differs among the states, from as few as 3 to as many as 15 days) only requires that that the buyer be
notified in writing of their legal right to rescind the developer sales contract within that particular states' time period. That apparently legally suffices for "informing" the unwary buyer. By the same token, it does not seem unreasonable to me that an intelligent buyer should actually
read a contract they sign involving tens of thousands of dollars...
However, developers
still differ quite widely in their particular interpretation of "notification in writing".
Some do indeed make it smaller microfont print somewhere toward the end of the sales contract, others provide it on a separate document sometimes conveniently "forgotten". Westgate, for a truly extreme example, has previously attempted to bury their cancellation rights "notification and instructions" on a separate CD provided at time of contract execution (i.e.,
not readily available as a hard copy document, unless and until retrieved and printed out from the CD). For all I know, Westgate may
still be doing that, even today --- it wouldn't surprise me a bit.