Well, that was fun.
After all the drama involved in preparing for the home inspection - it would appear that we needn't have bothered.
The home inspection came back with thirty pages of items they would like fixed in three weeks, or they won't buy.
In other words, they want out.
They've listed items like re-grading our yard and driveway, installing drywall in the basement, and raising our cabinetry so that it is the required eighteen inches over the stove burners (they are currently 16 and 1/2 inches above them).
It could obviously have been worse - we could have put offers out there ourselves, could have booked the movers, could have started the cash burn that all moves turn out to be, but it's still a major pain in the butt.
Square one.
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The worst thing is that we'd have totally been willing to work with them on these things, but they've made it clear that they're just trying to get out of the contract, because they've given us an impossible list in an impossible timeline and essentially said it's all or nothing.
Oh, well, at least we got a free inspection report out of it. Coming soon to this space: Remodeling woes???
Oh, that sucks.
It's not like some of those things were obvious; I mean...walking up the driveway, they would have noticed that. Yet they still put in an offer after seeing it.
And I mean...really. 16 1/2 inches isn't enough above the counter?
That's just being nickpicky.
Consider yourself lucky.
I know how much this totally sucks.
Our buyer pulled a similar thing, but it was all in an unfortunately successful effort to get us to repeatedly drop the price and add cash bonuses at closing.
I'm sure even if you said we can't do this, but we'll give you $x at closing, they might accept and proceed to make the next 3 weeks a living hell.
good luck. we're all pulling for you.
Well, we've officially signed and submitted the mutual release form. Bye bye buyers!
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