# Disaster contract

A term used when buying tree service.

Storm work signed within days of a declared emergency, which one state voids outright.

California makes a home solicitation contract for repairing or restoring damaged residential property VOID if it is signed within seven business days of the disaster. The exception is wider than it looks: a contract the buyer or their agent or insurance representative sought out survives wherever it is signed, and a phone call from the buyer to the seller's premises counts even after the seller knocked first. Where a contract is not void the cancellation window runs to the seventh business day instead of the usual third. A disaster here is one for which a president, a governor or a local executive has declared an emergency, so a storm on its own does not start the clock. The part that prices a [backlog](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/backlog) is what happens if the crew has already worked: a seller who performed services before cancellation is entitled to no compensation, and must restore the property where the work altered it. Florida says the no-compensation half in almost the same words.

Part of: Buying a Tree Service Business (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-tree-service-business)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-tree-service-business/terms/disaster-contract
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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