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Best Efforts

"Best efforts" is a goofy legal term that describes a kind of goodwill, or "we tried really hard...really" when trying to execute a sale, a transaction, or anything that requires brokerage work. It just means that the person doing the work can't sit around on his butt and do nothing. She has to...try.

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