If you haven't already read my previous post you should probably go do that now. If you have then...enjoy!
A few weeks after putting the contract on the B City house and having a contract on the M Town house, everything had been done for the B City House. We had the inspection done, the appraisal, all of the loans were approved and we were good to go! Things had been moving quickly for the contract on the M Town house as well, until it came out that the buyer of the house didn't have a job!
Well, to be fair, he did have a job. He was an independent contractor, but his contract had just ended and he hadn't signed a new one, therefore he was technically unemployed. Anybody with a brain knows that a bank isn't going to lend an unemployed man hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a house, so why this man didn't really think this was going to be a problem is beyond us.
The man told us that he'd be signing a new contract in 3 days, so 3 days came and went and he hadn't signed a contract. But don't worry! He assured us he'd be signing one in just a few more days. He never signed one.
Our realtor advised my parents to just drop these buyers and put the house back on the market because the whole situation seemed sketchy and weird and didn't seem like it was going to end well. So, the next day we put our M Town house back on the market.
Lucky for us, the sellers of the B City house agreed to let us stay in contract and just push our closing date back later. Even luckier, we got a new offer on our house within the next two days.
The offer was not as great as the last one had been but it was still a good offer and my parents decided to except it, however, this meant that we were going to have to do an inspection. We weren't too concerned about that though because we knew our house was in good condition and that nothing major would come back.
The way an inspection works is that a house inspector comes in and writes down everything that could be fixed on the house. Then it us to the buyers and the sellers to negotiate what the sellers are willing to fix and if the buyers aren't happy with the sellers offer than they're allowed to back out of the contract.
Nothing major came back on our inspection, as we had assumed, however the buyers did ask my parents to fix EVERYTHING that the inspector had found. So, my parents negotiated with them and came to an agreement and everything was great.
That is, until the buyers became convinced that the deck on our house wasn't stable. If you read my last post (which you should have or else you're probably totally confused), you probably remember me mentioning that we had a licensed contractor come out to do work on our deck before we even put it on the market. Because of this, we knew that there was nothing wrong with our deck and we couldn't figure out why the buyers were so convinced it wasn't stable.
They wanted us to hire a contractor to come out and look at it again, so we had the same guy come back out and look at it and confirm that it was secure. For some reason though, they still weren't convinced. They went over to the house, snuck into the backyard, and started taking random pictures of areas on the deck that were "unstable".
After a lot of back and forth, they decided to let us know that if we did not pay to have work done on the deck they would be backing out of the contract. They had until the next day at 9 pm to do this.
Just wait until you hear what happens next.
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