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House stress house stress
Apr. 22nd, 2022 08:05 pmWe got the roof estimate yesterday and sent it to the attorney with our wants and finals and oh boy howdy things are getting weird.
a new roof is anywhere from 12k to 16k as quoted to us. Turns out the house had 3 layers of shingles what the heck. This house was not sold as-is so we could negotiate with the seller about a serious issue. The roof is a serious issue!
There was a list of other things that needed work including the windows which were also flagged as a major issue.
Our attorney sent the first offer to the seller's attorney of 12k credit to us.
Their attorney came back and said the seller just needed us to come down on that. uhhhh, that's not how negotiating works bud, even I know that.
Our attorney said we needed a firm number and their attorney said and I quote "I think she can do 1500"
shits getting weird!
so F and I talked it over, we are willing to overlook all these other things wrong with the house if the seller is willing to credit back 6k, which is honestly, not a lot given when I talked over the list of fixes, we probably have 25k of stuff to be fixed with most of that being windows tbh, but a decent amount of other stuff to do. So for the seller to be so unwilling to work with us on 6k is just arg. it's a 290k sale! and yes, there's fees and commissions and other stuff. but come on
We'll see! we're waiting to hear back. If she isn't willing to do 6k, we're going to walk away. Yeah, we'll lose out on what we've paid out but come on. Work with us. I've got some fun adventures tomorrow so that will be a great distraction from thinking too much about this.
a new roof is anywhere from 12k to 16k as quoted to us. Turns out the house had 3 layers of shingles what the heck. This house was not sold as-is so we could negotiate with the seller about a serious issue. The roof is a serious issue!
There was a list of other things that needed work including the windows which were also flagged as a major issue.
Our attorney sent the first offer to the seller's attorney of 12k credit to us.
Their attorney came back and said the seller just needed us to come down on that. uhhhh, that's not how negotiating works bud, even I know that.
Our attorney said we needed a firm number and their attorney said and I quote "I think she can do 1500"
shits getting weird!
so F and I talked it over, we are willing to overlook all these other things wrong with the house if the seller is willing to credit back 6k, which is honestly, not a lot given when I talked over the list of fixes, we probably have 25k of stuff to be fixed with most of that being windows tbh, but a decent amount of other stuff to do. So for the seller to be so unwilling to work with us on 6k is just arg. it's a 290k sale! and yes, there's fees and commissions and other stuff. but come on
We'll see! we're waiting to hear back. If she isn't willing to do 6k, we're going to walk away. Yeah, we'll lose out on what we've paid out but come on. Work with us. I've got some fun adventures tomorrow so that will be a great distraction from thinking too much about this.
