You do things like the service on the furnace at your father's house to avoid having to negotiate with a buyer. Lot's of people would not have had it done, and dealt with it if it had arisen in the sales process. That does not make them better or worse people, it is what it is.
Look at this from the seller's perspective. You're getting the house for less than he wanted for it, but he took your offer, and that's his business. You're asing his to "fix" something that has been the way it for likely the entire time he has owned the house, that he never saw as a necessity. You see it as a necessity, he likely does not.
He's entirely within his rights to decline the terms of your revised offer, post inspection. You're entirely within your rights to walk away from the house, given his decision to decline your offer. That's the way the process works. You need the house more than he needs to sell it to you. The reality of that puts the onus to be flexible on you, not him.
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Date: 2006-10-27 10:59 pm (UTC)Look at this from the seller's perspective. You're getting the house for less than he wanted for it, but he took your offer, and that's his business. You're asing his to "fix" something that has been the way it for likely the entire time he has owned the house, that he never saw as a necessity. You see it as a necessity, he likely does not.
He's entirely within his rights to decline the terms of your revised offer, post inspection. You're entirely within your rights to walk away from the house, given his decision to decline your offer. That's the way the process works. You need the house more than he needs to sell it to you. The reality of that puts the onus to be flexible on you, not him.