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I do not believe there is a contract to convey real property between Wilbert Heikkila and David McLaughlin. McLaughlin agreed to buy three parcels of property for $145,000, $32,000 and $175,000. McLaughlin submitted his offer to Heikkila and earnest money checks. However after McLaughlin submitted the written offer to Heikkila, Heikkila changed the selling price of all three parcels, change the closing dates, and added a reservation. When Heikkila made changes to the existing offer this created a counteroffer and the first offer was automatically terminated and new offer was established. “A response by an offeree that contains terms and conditions different from or in addition to those of the offer. A counteroffer terminates the previous offer” (Cheeseman 2013). The mirror image rule states the “offeree must accept the terms as stated in the offer.” (Cheeseman 2013) “Minnesota has followed the `mirror image rule ' in analyzing acceptance of …show more content…

Under that rule, `an acceptance must be coextensive with the offer and may not introduce additional terms or conditions.” (McLaughlin v. Heikkila 2005) The offeree in this case McLaughlin did not sign, or write an acceptance letter to the counteroffer Hekkila

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