Selling a house

[Sorce]

5,000 buyer closing costs
2,000 bullshit from the home inspection that I'm not allowed to fix myself

These are both things you are allowed to negotiate. Sounds like you had an awful realtor. If you had originally agreed to pay 5k in closing costs (some buyers will ask for this instead of lowering the price on the house) I would have told them hell no on the additional 2k of repairs.

We just bought a house, asked for 7k off the asking price and found issues during the inspection. I could fix a lot of them myself we asked for another 1000 to fix some stuff found in the inspection, agreed on 500 back at closing.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by Sorce

These are both things you are allowed to negotiate. Sounds like you had an awful realtor. If you had originally agreed to pay 5k in closing costs (some buyers will ask for this instead of lowering the price on the house) I would have told them hell no on the additional 2k of repairs.

We just bought a house, asked for 7k off the asking price and found issues during the inspection. I could fix a lot of them myself we asked for another 1000 to fix some stuff found in the inspection, agreed on 500 back at closing.

This is exactly the case. Its all based on negotiations.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Sorce

These are both things you are allowed to negotiate. Sounds like you had an awful realtor. If you had originally agreed to pay 5k in closing costs (some buyers will ask for this instead of lowering the price on the house) I would have told them hell no on the additional 2k of repairs.

We just bought a house, asked for 7k off the asking price and found issues during the inspection. I could fix a lot of them myself we asked for another 1000 to fix some stuff found in the inspection, agreed on 500 back at closing.

I honestly don't know if there's such a thing as a good one. The first one we talked to wanted me to ask around 183k, she got laughed out of the door. And the one we used when we bought the place failed me in several ways as well. I don't believe any of them have the client's best interests in mind.