House bought but moving in later - experiences?

Planning certainty can also be arranged with an escrow account, the seller is just trying to get your money.

Sure! Why not? You sound like the seller is your enemy. Just read: contract comes from tolerating. Some people don’t understand that – they must think that the contracting party is automatically their enemy. Are you one of them? Usually, you see each other twice: once for the purchase and the second time for the goodwill negotiation. Then the enemy is supposed to turn back into a friend or what???

So I think – and hope – that it also works without such an account. What I have read lately tends more towards "put everything in the purchase contract so that it is settled."

Since we have a fairly good relationship with the sellers and we also have a sympathy bonus on their side, we tend to rely more on trust than mistrust.