About to buy my 1st house(maybe) and being a noob to the game, i feel like i might be getting jerked around a little. Basically everything seems to have gone pretty good up until now(we were about to close). Here are the bad things:
1) we gave an offer for the home and they turned it down and will only take $1,000 off the asking price. Seems like if someone is asking $200k, they would be a little more flexible than to say "the lowest we'll go is $199k"
2) Home inspection was fine other than some water damage spots on the exterior, windows painted shut and oh yea...its a tri-level and 1 level has zero heat or AC!
3) Bathtub has a crack in the fiberglass which could leak + they painted over it to hide it.
All we asked is that they fix the bathtub, have someone do something to the house where heat and air can flow frmo the level that has zero air vents. And just to fix the major water damage spots.
Our realtor says all that stuff is minor and we wont be able to find a better house than that. He thinks asking them to un-stick the windows is picky and we should do it ourselves when we move in(lol) the bathtub crack isnt that bad(to him) and they wont fix all of the water damage spots, just the ones 'they' consider major. And he says he really doesnt think they will fix the air conditioning problem on 1 level of the house.
Is it too much to ask for someone to make sure the windows open/bathtub doesnt leak and to make sure heat and air work in the whole house, not just 2/3 of it? And on top of that, they arent covering the full closing cost and they only went down $1,000 on their asking price. Any advice would be appreciated!
1) we gave an offer for the home and they turned it down and will only take $1,000 off the asking price. Seems like if someone is asking $200k, they would be a little more flexible than to say "the lowest we'll go is $199k"
2) Home inspection was fine other than some water damage spots on the exterior, windows painted shut and oh yea...its a tri-level and 1 level has zero heat or AC!
3) Bathtub has a crack in the fiberglass which could leak + they painted over it to hide it.
All we asked is that they fix the bathtub, have someone do something to the house where heat and air can flow frmo the level that has zero air vents. And just to fix the major water damage spots.
Our realtor says all that stuff is minor and we wont be able to find a better house than that. He thinks asking them to un-stick the windows is picky and we should do it ourselves when we move in(lol) the bathtub crack isnt that bad(to him) and they wont fix all of the water damage spots, just the ones 'they' consider major. And he says he really doesnt think they will fix the air conditioning problem on 1 level of the house.
Is it too much to ask for someone to make sure the windows open/bathtub doesnt leak and to make sure heat and air work in the whole house, not just 2/3 of it? And on top of that, they arent covering the full closing cost and they only went down $1,000 on their asking price. Any advice would be appreciated!
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