If a buyer properly cancels a home solicitation contract within the cancellation period, the contractor must:
Explanation
Civil Code §1689.10 gives the seller 10 days after a home solicitation contract is cancelled to tender back every payment the buyer made and any note or other evidence of indebtedness. Thirty days is not a deadline anywhere in the home solicitation statutes. A restocking or contract-preparation fee is exactly what a properly cancelled contract forbids the contractor to keep. And the refund does not wait on the goods: until the seller tenders the money, the buyer may keep possession of what was delivered and holds a lien on it for the amount owed.
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