Addendum to Purchase Agreement (Universal) — Mississippi Edition Template

Deals change after signing — repair credits get negotiated after inspection, closing dates slip, appraisal gaps get bridged, personal property gets added or removed. The clean, enforceable way to document any of it is a written addendum executed by all parties, because nearly every purchase agreement contains an integration/merger clause providing that modifications must be in writing, and the statute of frauds in every state requires material modifications to real estate contracts to be written anyway.

This Universal Addendum to Purchase Agreement is deliberately flexible: it identifies the underlying contract by parties, property, and effective date; provides numbered blank provisions for the new or modified terms; states that all other terms of the purchase agreement remain in full force and effect; handles conflicts between the addendum and the original agreement (addendum controls); and includes execution blocks for all buyers and sellers with dates. It is the form you reach for dozens of times a year.

The 3-page template also ships with a drafting guide containing ready-to-adapt clause language for the most common addendum scenarios: inspection repair resolutions, closing date extensions, appraisal gap provisions, seller concessions and credits (with a note on lender concession caps), personal property inclusions, post-closing occupancy stubs, and contingency waivers. The 50-state notes flag jurisdictions with specific counterpart-execution or electronic signature nuances (all states have adopted UETA or equivalent, and federal E-SIGN, 15 U.S.C. § 7001, validates electronic signatures, but practice details vary). Template for drafting purposes — review significant modifications with a broker or attorney.

About this Mississippi Edition: Drafted around the Mississippi Real Estate Brokers License Law (Miss. Code Ann. § 73-35-1 et seq.) and the Mississippi Real Estate Commission's agency-disclosure rules, under which licensees deliver the MREC "Working With a Real Estate Broker" disclosure at first substantive contact and dual agency is lawful only with the informed written consent of both parties — the dual-agency form, listing agreement and buyer-representation agreement are built on that consent-and-confirmation regime, with all compensation flowing through the Responsible Broker. The seller disclosure form tracks the Property Condition Disclosure Statement required by Miss. Code Ann. § 89-1-501 et seq., and the contract forms rely on the Mississippi statute of frauds (§ 15-3-1) and the Mississippi Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (§ 75-12-1 et seq.) alongside federal E-SIGN. Because Mississippi has no general commercial broker lien statute, the commission and referral forms rely on contract remedies rather than lien rights, and Mississippi terminology (Responsible Broker, chancery court, Chancery Clerk, deeds of trust, attorney closings) is used throughout.