Many people look at offer and acceptance as what is needed for a contract, but a verbal offer and acceptance actually is not needed for a contract to form. What are the elements needed to form a contract?

A dog owner owned a dog of little monetary value. One day, the dog disappeared, and the owner placed the following advertisement in the newspaper: “I will pay $500 to anyone who finds and returns my dog.” Before reading the ad in the newspaper, the neighbor found the dog in his backyard late the next night. The man took the dog inside, intending to return it in the morning. Shortly before he returned the dog, the neighbor read the dog owner’s advertisement in the morning newspaper. If the neighbor returns the dog is there an enforceable contract?

On August 1, 2021, Bill decided to buy a home in the City of La Verne, California. He downloaded the Zillow app to his phone and began scrolling through the homes listed for sale in the City of La Verne. Zillow is a real estate app that lists all houses currently for sale throughout the state of California; the application provides the sellers name, house address, pictures, total square footage, price, and other information that may be relevant to the sale and purchase of any given home. After viewing several homes on the Zillow App, he saw a home on 7th street he was interested in purchasing. The house was being offered for sale at a price of $750,000. He immediately emailed the seller through the Zillow app stating he would like to purchase the home for the price listed. The seller (on that same day) responded via email stating that the house was no longer available for sale; however, the seller had another home on 5th Street that was very similar in size, lay-out and price. On August 2, Bill emailed Seller and demanded that he be sold the 7th Street House because Bill had emailed his acceptance to Seller to the email address provided by Seller on the Zillow App and that he accepted all the terms of Seller’s offer as articulated on the Zillow App. Did Bill and Seller form a valid contract? IRAC your rationale in the comments!

Hi, can anyone look over my first settlement agreement and share ideas or if its perfect lol

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