In focus

Living room with shelves where a contract can be spread out

This section is the contract bundle and the people who read it with you. Bring a pencil. Leave the rate conversation for the fine-print section, and leave optical metaphors at the door: focus here means the clauses.

03 Reading an ACT contract for sale

Mei Lin Teo, Contract desk editor, wrote this note. It opens with a checklist, walks four sections, and ends by saying what the page will not do.

The same eleven notes are listed together on the field guide and on the scopes index.