Different sources, one shape: the money arrives in stages, and so does the contract.
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A company goes public and shares become sellable in tranches. A fund pays out on its own schedule. A business sells with money arriving across several years. Compensation is deferred and lands in pieces.
Those sound like four different situations and they behave like one. A large amount is coming, the timing is roughly knowable, and the exact dates belong to someone else.
A Miami preconstruction contract has exactly the same shape. Payment is spread across roughly two to four years, tied to contract, groundbreaking, construction milestones and closing. So there are two schedules, and whether they line up is the only question that matters.
Deposit dates can usually be moved before contract, particularly on larger units in buildings still selling, because a developer sets a schedule to fund construction rather than because those specific dates matter.
After signing they are dates in a contract and they do not move.
Almost nobody asks in time. That is the single most useful thing on this page, and it costs nothing to act on.
After a company goes public. Lockups, vesting, buying before shares can be sold. Buying a Miami condo after an IPO.
How the payments actually work. The tranches, the percentages, what triggers each one. The deposit schedule explained.
When the building runs late. Why milestone-linked payments behave differently from calendar-linked ones. Delivery timelines, and how they slip.
Whether preconstruction is right at all. One payment for something that exists, against a schedule to manage. New construction or resale.
Who signs. Personally, an entity, or a trust, and what each changes. Buying through an entity.
If Florida becomes home. What actually has to change, and what does not count. Moving from New York to Miami.
The most common mistake in this whole cluster is buying because the money landed rather than because of the apartment. Miami is a good reason to buy in Miami. A payout is not.
Where the timing is genuinely uncertain rather than merely staged, resale removes the problem completely: one payment, an apartment that exists today, a higher price per foot, no calendar to manage.
And waiting costs nothing. The money will still be there next quarter.
Amounts get all the attention and dates decide the outcome, and dates are only movable in the weeks before a contract is signed. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier and we will tell you what a specific developer has actually agreed to. Where a question is legal, tax or compliance, we introduce you to advisers who handle that properly rather than answering it ourselves.
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Nothing here is advice about a position, a portfolio, or when to sell anything, and nothing here says to buy. It sets out how two schedules interact so the right question gets asked in time. Contact the desk at Miami Dossier for the current position on any building we cover. Where a question is legal, tax or compliance, we introduce you to advisers who handle that properly rather than answering it ourselves.
