Buyer now asking for unnecessary "repairs"
EMG1234
10 years ago
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Buyer wants 10k for 1k worth of repairs
Comments (20)I think the radon thing is a huge gimmick. The radon mitigation system is about the dumbest thing I have ever seen. This is about as dumb as those little "horns" that you put on your car to scare deer away. You drill a hole in the basement slab and run an exhaust pipe through the roof to allow all the trapped radon to escape? Who is to say wherever they decided to drill the hole, the radon is just sitting there waiting to escape? Why wouldn't the radon be trapped under a different area and still seeping into the house? What about all the radon that is outside? Or in the supermarket? Or church? Radon is supposedly everywhere - so how do you escape it? By wearing a gas mask? The research I did on radon told me that only a small number of people could get lung cancer IF subjected to this over a LIFETIME. How long is a lifetime? 80 years? Well thats about the time you die anyway - so how can you prove it was radon that did you in? I truly think the radon scare is just a gimmick, designed to sucker those who live in fear out of their money. One minute eggs are bad for you - too much cholesterol. Next minute they're healthy. Really doesn't matter - we are all going to die sometime, and if your number is up, God is going to take you out no matter how well you safeguarded yourself. Yes, you want to protect yourself within reason, but there is also such a thing as worrying about nothing. Our inspection turned up radon in the basement, and our buyer asked me to pay for a mitigation system. This was coming from a guy in his 50's who smoked. Amazing - he's not concerned about his chances of cancer from being a smoker - but he wanted me to safeguard him from radon. He had also lived somewhere else for the previous 50 years - so who is to say that my house would have killed him? I told him "no - your health concerns are your problem, you pay for it". My realtor thought I was committing house seller suicide by denying him that, but I stuck to my guns because I knew I was right. And he still bought the house....See MoreBuyer asked for 63 fixes on Inspection
Comments (66)I can bet that out of that $40,000, the government gets a large chunk of it now. Yep, between permits and engineering reviews and inspection fees, regulatory departments have become governmental profit centers. It started as "don't worry about the cost of this new proposed department, we won't raise your taxes, we'll fund it with user fees." So Joe Taxpayer feels ok, because hey, the department is going to regulate something which will keep me safe. And it won't cost me anything. So Joe Plumber pays the user fees. So he has to raise his rates, so Joe Taxpayer now pays more for plumbing. But hey, at least his taxes didn't go up. :-/...See MoreBuyer is backing out of signed contract..now what?
Comments (77)I don't think most contracts spell out who is going to do the inspection - mine never have - so you can have a friend do it if they have expertise in that area. Where the contingency comes into play is when you present the seller with a list of real or imagined deficiencies of the house and say, "Fix this stuff or else I'm not buying this dump." If the seller agrees to everything the buyer wants, then the inspection contingency wouldn't let the buyer off the hook. But every time you go back and forth, if someone says "no," the deal is off. So if the buyer asks for $12,000 in renovations and the seller tries to compromise at $11,500, the buyer can say no and walk. I don't know if the buyer can simply say after the inspection that he/she simply no longer wants the house no matter what the seller does to fix it. Maybe if there's a health or safety issue, or something that just couldn't be fixed....See MoreBuyer has asked for $5K after inspection AND now is asking for repairs
Comments (14)"who cares if I pi$$ them off" I think some buyers have that attitude. What they forget is that the owner still is living and taking care of that house until the closing. Do you really want to piss off someone who is taking care of one of the biggest investment you probably will make in your life? It don't think it work out good for our buyer. As I said before, ours was a custom home built by us and using commercial electrician and plumber. There was valves and switches all over the house that a normal house did not have. I was going to label everything for the new owner until the princess started trying to squeeze money out of us. Heck there was switches I didn't even know what they were for, but my husband did. Then my attitude changed to "figure it out yourself." The last straw came when a few days before the closing when she wanted to inconvenience everyone to change their schedules to move the closing up by a day so she wouldn't be inconvenienced and could have some work done before they moved in on Saturday. Of course we said NO. That is when I really lost it. It was not nice, but I sabotaged the house. I knew she didn't know how to do anything and I don't think he he knew a hammer from a screwdriver. I didn't do nothing petty like taking light bulbs or damaging the home. I made sure every switch and valve was off. I know they probably ended up calling in trades to figure out why the doorbell didn't ring, or why the gas fireplaces and grills didn't work, or why they couldn't program the garage and front door, etc. Well the doorbell had a hidden switch to turn it on and off and I shut it off. There were extra safety valves for the gas fireplaces and grills in the basement ceiling at different locations that were turned off. The codes they were given to open the garage and front door was a guest code not the master code. The garage door didn't open because it was also on a switch and the same with the outside garage motion detector. The outdoor plugs didn't work either unless a switch was on. Somehow they got my son who lived close by phone number and tried calling him several times. He just ignored them. I know it wasn't nice to sabotage the house, but looking back I still have no regrets, because she was a royal bit_ch. We move to our new house a week before the closing and after all we were just protecting the empty house from theft or gas leaks. lol...See MoreKathy Harrington
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