Index of Real Estate Articles
This aims to be a complete list of the articles on real estate. Binder – In law, a binder (also known as an agreement for sale, earnest money contract, memorandum of sale, contract to sell) is a short-form preliminary contract in which the purchaser agrees to buy and the seller agrees to sell certain real estate under stated terms and conditions, usually in the form of a purchase offer, and is enforceable in a court of law and used to secure a real estate transaction until a more formal, fully negotiated contract of sale can be signed. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0; additional terms may apply. See offer and acceptance. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
An exception was the ’99 edition, which sported a larger grille adorned with a broad winged badge in bright chrome, a new Chrysler-brand signature being phased-in throughout the line. We shouldn’t forget Town & Country, if only because Chrysler Corporation had become the “minivan company” in more ways than one. Calendar-year sales see-sawed from the low to high 30,000s, a fairly lackluster showing for a mainstream sedan. The related Dodge Stratus did much better business, helped by lower prices and more-aggressive marketing.
The base LX model used a 2.7-liter with dual overhead camshafts and 200 bhp, the uplevel LXi a related single-cam 3.2 with 225. Engineers worked hard to reduce the noise, vibration, and harshness criticized in previous LH models, but didn’t entirely succeed. Overall, though, the ’98 Concorde was an impressive effort — enough that Consumer Guide® named it a Best Buy each year through 2003. But though sales jumped more than 67 percent for calendar ’98 to nearly 65,000, buyers seemed to lose interest after that, and volume steadily declined, skidding to under 26,000 by calendar 2003. An increasingly rough market was partly to blame, but so were some new public-relations gaffes described further on. Prices held steady, but only with skimping on the quality of some materials, especially inside. And workmanship, though visibly improved, still wasn’t up to snuff.
The last was now quite like the Imperial, which was again being marketed as a Chrysler but was still registered as a separate make. After ’75, Imperial actually became a Brougham via the badge-engineering so long practiced by Chrysler — to the confusion of customers up and down the corporate line. Few in Highland Park had foreseen the energy crisis, which only accelerated the buyer resistance to big cars that had been building as a result of galloping sticker prices.
