House update

Just a little house update to help keep you up on the happenings around here.

The middle of last week the buyers scheduled to have an inspection on Friday they sent it to us and said "please fix all 40 issues".  Well that was just absolutely unreasonable.  I mean some things were simple like changing the door threshold and leaky faucet. Others were totally reasonable like re-attaching the flue to the water heater, cracked skylight cover,  and the shower surround needs to be sealed again. Some of the things were completely unreasonable like planting sod, GFCI outlets (not required in a house of our age), etc.  But the majority of the issues were just related to seasonal maintenance like gutters, sprinklers, dirty chimney etc.  Well after lots of discussion Ryan and I decided that we would fix anything that was cheap and/or easy so that we could negotiate to not correct some of the bigger costly things.  Before we could get back to the buyers though with our decision to correct 23 of the 40 issues, they sent an amendment to us and asked for only 16 repairs.  Unfortunately the repairs were not the ones we were willing to correct so we came back and said we would do 12 of the 16 items including lots of the yearly maintenance items and the items that impaired the structure and/or function of the house. We would not complete the cosmetic issues that they were asking for though.  Again they came back and said that if we didn't fix one of cosmetic issue that they asked they would walk away.  With that request we came back one more time and said we would repair the brick mortar like they asked but that due to the price of this repair we would not be doing any of the maintenance items.  So literally we be doing 6 of of the 16 issues they wanted.

They took a day to think about it and ultimately came back with a signed and agreed upon contract.

Again this miracle is absolutely nothing we could have done ourselves but rather the hand of God!

So with that, Ryan went to Carrollton again today to work on the house one last time and make all the corrections/repairs needed.  The buyers are finally able to go to the bank and finalize the financial paperwork so we are only steps away from closing.  Our realtor doesn't believe that closing will occur before the end of the month, but I'm still praying for it though!