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A land contract is a written legal contract or an agreement, and it's used to purchase real estate, such as a house, an apartment building, a commercial building, or even vacant land, so long as it deals with real property. Buying or selling on a ?land contract? in Michigan is a transaction involving seller financing.

MCL 600.5726. If there is a default (buyer fails to pay the installments due under the contact or breaches the contract), seller may seek to retake the possession of the property through the forfeiture process. First, the seller must serve a written notice of the forfeiture upon the buyer.

If a seller is unable to find a buyer for its commercial real estate property on its own, it will typically engage the services of a commercial real estate broker. There are various types of brokerage agreements, including exclusive agency agreements, exclusive right to sell agreements, and open listing agreements.

The terms can vary, but most agreements are between two and four years. At the end of the term, the buyer will usually have a balloon payment due before the final transfer of the property deed takes place.

(1) When the vendee named in a land contract, or his or her heirs, successors, or assigns, has fully paid and performed the obligations under the contract that are a precondition to the sale and conveyance of the land, the vendor named in the contract shall make conveyance of the land to the vendee by a deed of ...

With a land contract, the buyer does not get full ownership of the property. The buyer is an owner, but they only get ?equitable title? of the property. Equitable title is the right to obtain full ownership of property. This is different from legal title, which is actual ownership of property.