Belated and unilateral terms in a contract
From Utah, USA, a client of a property inspection company asks: Is the provider entitled to unilaterally impose new conditions after it has accepted the payment and done the job? The answer is No. This question is paraphrased from a post on the Law site of Stack Exchange, where it got closed as part of the site's ongoing censorship and decay. Background The client, a prospective homebuyer, mentions that he asked the company to perform an inspection of some real estate in which he is interested. The parties did not sign a contract. Based on their verbal contract, the inspection was performed as scheduled, the client paid, and the provider informed him that the report will be delivered within a few days. The provider subsequently notified the client that the inspection report is available at the company's website. However, the client is prevented from downloading the report unless he signs in acceptance of a set of "terms and conditions" that hitherto had never been di