Verbal agreements
Once again it seems, a verbal agreement is not worth the paper it’s printed on. Some investors showed up with an all-cash, no-inspection offer, so the seller is going with them. Do people have no sense of decency in the face of money? Does the seller actually know of some hidden problem that the inspection will turn up?
ARGH.
Our realtor is trying to see if the seller is willing to let Jeff plead our case via phone call - we’re not investors, we want to live there and raise our family, etc. I doubt it will work, but you’ve gotta try. Or cry. Or possibly both.
Guess I need to get to work on the sour grapes list of things that weren’t so good about it after all. Unfortunately I had a hard time coming up with anything earlier when looking at the house. I may be stuck with “there must be a hellmouth in the crawl space that they won’t know about because there’s no inspection”.
July 10th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Damn! I am so mad and sad I can hardly stand it. Even my after-work walk didn’t cheer me up. Don’t know what else to say, except I do hope you can track down the owner’s phone number. I can’t believe that the owner’s parents would rather have “investors” buy their house than Anne and Jeff, who have such wonderful plans for it. They deserve it!
Love, Mom
July 10th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
*sniff* Thanks, Mom :)