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- From: tvervaek@col.hp.com (Tom Vervaeke)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: Buying a FSO?
- Message-ID: <1k3o11INN2nb@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:14:25 GMT
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- >
- > >Make sure the sales contract allows you to have the home inspected by a
- > >professional inspector, and that the sellers must fix all items.
- >
- > I disagree here-this assumes the sellers would do a good job. Get an inspector
- > to tell you what needs fixing and then if it's major, get an estimate for
- > how much it would take to fix it for the long term (as you are going to
- > have to live with the repair), reduce the offer price by the repair cost. Or
- > since many homeowners don't want the sale price to go down, get them to give
- > you cash back from the sale.
-
- I guess I should have been more explicit, I didn't mean for the
- sellers to actually fix the items. I meant for them to have the items
- fixed and the house then reinspected by either your or the
- professional again.
-
- Regards.
-
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