You're not crazy and it WILL work! :) New roof and new furnace? Talk those up when you sell it ~ those are major expenses if they need to be replaced, so it sounds real good that they're new. Find the receipts if you can and give your real estate agents copies when you list it. Ditto for the siding and bay window. Siding is another nice thing to be new when you're selling. Floors are important. You know how everything looks great right after you vacuum, even if there are a few clothes on the couch and everything needs dusting? ;) Fix those floors if you can right before you put it on the market, even if you just do a quick sand/buff job on the wood and put in cheapo linoleum elsewhere ~ it's new and clean and will look good for the moment. Fill the holes in the walls ~ white toothpaste works great on a white wall and is so easy. If you can touch up the walls inside, do. Even if you don't have any paint left from the last paint job, but can computer match it at the paint store. Attempts at touching up look better than no attempt at all. Bathrooms and kitchens are "in" right now and everyone wants a custom job, so I wouldn't worry TOO much about them as whoever buys your house will probably want to do something different anyway. Fix anything that won't allow for immediate move-in or just looks really bad and leave it. And remember curb appeal. Go out to the street in front of your house and take a loooong, hard look at it, remembering that this will be the FIRST view the buyers will get of your place and you know how people go for first impressions. THAT will tell you more of what you need to do than I can. Good luck! :)!

There have been several occasions on this forum where posters have been "outed" and discovered by others involved with their transactions. -On the kitchen forum there was a lady who'd been chronicling her kitchen cabinet builder's problems. She ended up having to go to court over it. Somewhere in all of this, the cabinet builder found her postings on the forum and threatened to sue her for publicly disparaging his name. -On the pool forum there was another example of a poster who chronicled his rotten pool build. The pool builder was informed of the posts, and also threatened to sue. -Right here on this forum, a poster was venting about some RE transaction problems he was having. Someone told his realtor, and s/he ended up here on GWeb and confronted the poster about it. There's just no way I feel comfortable posting specifics, and also a location. General questions/comments, maybe. But not specifics. That won't stop others from figuring it out (for example, maybe remembering me posting my location or specific city in a previous thread), but if there are details that are ongoing in a RE transaction, I wouldn't advise anyone post too much info. You never know who will see that info or how that knowledge may be used against you.

Lukki, I surely understand what you are saying - and I don't get any of this either. What I have to do right now is believe my son. I am thinking he may be misinformed, but I don't believe he is lying to us. I am still thinking that when I sign the title over, it will have both of their names on it. I do not know what I will do then. My sister is also on the title; I cannot even imagine her reaction. She does not know what has transpired over the last two weeks. I do not know what her parents are thinking either. They are on the other side of the country and I have met them twice. Our offer of money was way before theirs, so it would seem to me that they might have contacted us?? They know at the moment this is my house. If I were them, I wouldn't be putting a penny in. Kswl, this is not a new situation. When he first offered to buy the house, my sister and I sat down with both of them and explained the terms of the sale, which were basically the price and title. No other strings were attached. So she knew the terms from day 1. But you are right, no outcome will satisfy all parties. The whole situation is horrible. I have tried and tried - we all have, and when any one of us wants to give up on her, I say try harder. We have all bit our tongues and tried to keep the peace. My son defends her every move - and can explain away any of her antics, FB postings, etc. She is both the antagonizer and the victim. I think he feels the need to take care of her. But at this point, at least we see our son, not as much as we would like, but we do. He is the youngest and we always seemed to have the closest relationship with him. Unfortunately, not anymore and there is nothing we can do about it. I don't know what I will do if both names are on the title when I have to sign. I just don't know, but I do know that whatever happens, this nightmare will be over by June 1st. Thanks to all of you for your support! Great day to all!!

I mean can you take another offer a day before we close??? the day we close?? Like at what point do you have to mark the home pending??? There is a buying a home section here and you might want to post there. There are specific real estate laws that I am not familiar with, even as I am familiar with general contract law. First, most contingency sales have a method for you to remove the contingency, so technically they can't take another offer at all. They can just get an offer and demand that you remove the contingency. This is the kick-out clause. Removing the contingency is your choice rather than theirs. They can make the demand that you remove the contingency or they will void the contract. However, this is a real mess and I would suggest you go over their agent's head if that is an option. Generally, if you sign a contract then you must abide by the terms you agreed to. At this point I suspect that you can block any offer they take. They are in breach of the contract and they can't get enriched by that breach. If you wanted to push the thing in court you could let them take another offer, then get an injunction on their closing until a hearing. Of course, you wouldn't want to spend too much money working on that, but at that point they become liable to both parties that signed a contract with them and they get a headache like they couldn't possibly imagine. For a few hundred bucks you can prevent them selling for months just waiting on a hearing that you drop 15 minutes before court.