"If it is not in the contract, and if the buyer walks because of this, the seller can sue for breach of contract, or in the very least keep his deposit. " There are so many ways to kill a deal under most contracts it is not even fumy. Unable to fulfill the financing contingency? Deal is dead. One of the oldest ones has been to have a wife decide to stop work for pregnancy. Not enough income available? Financing fails, deal is dead. No rental contract in place? Financing fails, deal is dead. If your house is so hazardous you fear every guest injuring themselves and then suing, it must be a real rat hole. No wonder it is for sale

I have been shocked by the responses on this site that in so many ways elude to justifying the manufacturer for not finishing the job. I would have thought if any site would side with the consumer it would be this one. I have no intentions of doing business with either of them. That is not that point. The point was for others who may be considering them thru other dealers to be aware of the attitudes of River Run And Touchstone. I gave a very long background so the story would be complete with details instead of bad mouthing for spite. Touchstone products are well made if nothing goes wrong. If something does do not expect it taken care of in a timely manner. I have paid more for the cabinets then I have collected to date. I had to pay in full for them when they were delivered. I did that so the owner could get them installed on time with their contractors schedule. As a result of Touchstone not making them correctly and having to deliver 4 times to the project instead of what should be 1 the owner does not want to pay untill complete so I am motivated to get it finished. Touchstone could care less about that. Suppliers like that will put you out of business for paying for everything. I mine as well have a sign on my door that says looking for cabinets? I will buy them for you!!!!! That only lasts so long before you are out of money. I will be fine I was just so surprised the companies stated their postitions when they are clearly not professional in their approach to problem solving. Lastly..... I was in the owners house friday night till 8:30 pm installing the last delivery of doors that showed up 6:00 pm. The national sales manager told me the doors would arrive thursday when he said he was going to replace my business with another one meaning I do not sell enough of his products for him to care.... I called the owners to tell them thursday was the day and to be home if possible to finish. Thursday comes and I get a call from the plant thursday afternoon saying the truck was finally loaded and just left and would arrive to me late friday. I had to call the owners and say false alarm should be tomorrow now. The manager knew that he did not have the courtsey to explain what he meant by thursday was my day..... The owners said to me friday they never know if I am telling the truth because what ever I say will happen never does. I am always miss lead by the company I immediately let the owners know what the plan is when I get information from Touchstone to find out the day of that I was not told the right thing. I have had 3 drivers deliver the 4 times they have been there. All of them have said they hate working their and are looking for other jobs as what happens to me all happens to them and the other employees. I do what ever is possible to give the best service I am able to. It amazes me there are so many companies who have enough people to work with they do not have to do the same. This business is awfull everyone wants you to give them the world for service value and quality and always beat you down to get it. It is a struggle every day to justify your products and services are worth the purchase. Reputation is everything and easy to lose when you have a finite number of repeat clients. Most of my business is repeat with various types of professionals in the Remodeling industry. I do all I can to make what I do professional and acurate the first time. The longer I am in this business I learn that a national company does not need to do the same thing as there are many fish in the sea for them to switch to.

This was in the contract. The contract is for the property in its present condition with all agreed upon repairs, and even the OP believed that the damage was caused after the purchase agreement was signed. So it certainly was part of the contract as it didn't leak when the offer was made. Some states have limits on when you can hold up a closing and when you can't. So it is possible that the OP wasn't obligated to agree to the repair at all... However, the OP didn't argue the obligation, he agreed to repair and that agreement is itself a contract. An offer and acceptance for an exchange of consideration creating a mutual obligation. Let's look at that... Was there an offer to fix the leak? Yes. Was that offer accepted? Yes. Was there an exchange of consideration? Yes (the seller was relieved from any delay in closing and the buyer got a non-leaking sink). Was there mutual obligation? Yes. (the seller was obligated to fix the sink and the buyer was obligated to purchase the house on time). Did each party have capacity? Probably. Because of the statute of frauds the contract must be in writing and effectively signed by the party who enforcement is sought against or demonstrate action by the parties sufficient to overcome the statute of frauds. There are several states that have rules about repair agreements post sale, other states have nothing. I would need to know the OP's state to offer more specific information, but I can tell you certainly that my state says specifically, "Seller agrees to deliver the property to purchaser at settlement in its present physical condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, but with such repairs and improvements as the parties otherwise agree." -------- So if it is your assertion that he could have said no as that was not in the original contract, I would agree that he could say no and they could fight over the original contract. But once the OP said yes, it did create an obligation. The enforceability of which will depend on state laws. ---------- We don't even know that the leak is one that the OP said he repaired. Can we just agree that we are talking about the same leak? I believe the OP is smart enough to handle this situation on his own if it turns out to be a different leak.

Switching over utilities is usually just a phone call to a local office. If you don't have any credit history with them you may have to pay a deposit. Refrigerator being included with the house is a regional thing. When we rented in Texas they usually did not provide a refrigerator, but I'm not sure about purchasing. We have a security system installed in our old house (in Texas), and it can be operated as a local-only alarm system with no monitoring. You can still arm the system and the alarm siren will only go off in the house. If we have the system monitored and set it up for them to call the police after the alarm is tripped, we need to apply for an alarm permit with the city first. The city added the permit requirement because there are so many false alarms from cleaning services and other workmen who are given access but don't understand how to shut off the alarm. IIRC, if you have two or more false alarms within a certain period the city imposes a fine. Bruce