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Actually you could. You just don't have evidence. But filing a complaint is a decent revenge.

Yes they do. In our experience, she wanted us to sell at any cost and pushed the price down to get the house off the market and get us moving, but when we went to buy she seemed to be trying to get us to pay top $. So basically the exact opposite as what you want. Sell low to move the inventory and know your client is forced to buy, and then try to get them to buy high.

We did sell two homes by owner, but that comes with it's own problems too.

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lol .. forwarded the realtor our response to the sellers response in fixing stuff, and a few minutes ago I see an email pop up with the subject of "This is great news!". Sigh of relief. Finally some good news.

Except it's not. The realtor has ADHD and the [expletive] probably read the first word of the first sentence and then did the overly optimistic reaction that they all do because they want their money. All it was was my request, not the sellers response.

What a dumb [expletive].

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When's your son getting married?

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Week from tomorrow. That will take my mind off of this nonsense.

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"Boy, that was exciting. I always say it ain't over til it's over, but that one should've been over a while ago." ~ Yogi Berra

New twist ... seller says our inspection company broke her alarm system when they were in the crawl space and is getting it repaired and charging us. SHe doesn't live in the house, so she wasn't there this week. Called the inspection company and they said they had to go back to pick up the radon kit 2 days after the inspection, and that it was working.

What a [expletive].

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Just read this thread - what a goat rodeo. Are you guys downsizing? We're thinking about that since we are empty nesters and don't need all this space (or to live in a neighborhood with tons of little kids), but I really don't want to go through either the selling or buying processes (much less the packing/moving/unpacking one), and reading your saga just reinforces that.

Plus I want to enjoy our newly remodeled master bath for awhile.

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Downsizing.

At this point it's starting to bother me, and that's not good. We are effectively down to disagreeing on who should be fixing a pipe, which would be between $200-300. I went off with our realtor today, who has actually stepped up a little bit the last few days and actually seemed to be helping. But she thinks I'll just let the deal fall through. I'm going to wait until Monday and just sign off on it, and hope that the realtors freak out and come up with the money for the fix. If not, we'll just sign off and put this behind us.

Our lawyer absolutely sucks though. So the women says that our inspection broke the alarm system, and she wants us to pay and I tell the lawyer that I don't even care if the thing is fixed, that I don't even want one in the house. That's true, I'll just turn it off and never use it. But then I got pissed and wrote back 1 min. later and said that no, I did want it fixed and expected it to be fixed. Not that I'll use it, but I want that [expletive] to fix it just to spite her. He replies that it's past the 5 day lawyer some [expletive] and that he can't add that to the list. [expletive] you idiot - if the roof blows off the house does that mean I don't have the right to expect a roof to be on the house when we close? I'm not adding anything, the [expletive] said there was an alarm system and she needs to make sure it's there and functioning when we close.

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Well, how did the move go?

Let us know if you encounter any ghosts the first night in your new house.

My wife and I bought a house in February and used a cousin of her friends as a realtor. She was great. We told her what we wanted in a house and she found what we were looking for. Went through the whole offer thing and another buyer came in and paid more than asking price. Back to the drawing board.

This time our realtor found us a house with even more than we asked for, in a much better neighborhood (though the previous one was gated), and for an insane price (it was a foreclosure). We've had to do tons of maintenance type stuff, but it was structurally great, the inspector let me tag along and ask a million questions and our realtor was punctual, polite, and knowledgable. We had a great experience in the buying portion.

The selling part sucked, and still does. After a year on the market we decided to just rent our old house and we've had a great experience with that thus far. Found a nice young couple to rent our old bungalow home and they pay their rent on time and don't complain. They could keep the yard a little better, but only a minor complaint.

I'm good friends with a few lawyers and they took good care of us.

All this to say I was lucky enough to find a good realtor and lawyer I suppose.