you must decide whether you want to remove the contingency and take your chances on getting a loan. You may choose to cancel the purchase contract .

3. A requirement that the seller must provide marketable title.

With an attorney or title officer, review the title report. The title must be "clear" to ensure that you don't have legal issues regarding your ownership on down the line.

Check into local and state ordinances regarding property transfer and make sure that you and/or the seller have complied with them.

Secure homeowner's insurance. This will probably be required before you can close the sale.  It would be in your best interest to apply for insurance as soon as possible after the contract is signed.

Contact local utility companies to schedule to have service turned on when you close escrow.

Schedule the final walk-through inspection. At this time, you should make sure that the property is exactly as the contract says it should be. What you thought to be a "permanently attached" chandelier that would come with the property might have been removed by the seller and replaced with a different fixture entirely.

You've made it! Once the sale has closed, you're the proud owner of a new home. Congratulations!

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