‘All 4 Parents Were At The Showing And The Inspections’—A Home Seller Shares How Manipulative Buyers Got Greedy And Lost A Great House

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‘All 4 Parents Were At The Showing And The Inspections’—A Home Seller Shares How Manipulative Buyers Got Greedy And Lost A Great House

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user shared their experience in a post on

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, it quickly drew attention from thousands of homeowners.

The post, titled “Manipulative Buyers Got Greedy and Lost a Great House,” detailed how a potential ***** went off the rails thanks to overreaching repair demands and questionable tactics. “I’m all about negotiating,” the seller wrote, “but when someone tries to manipulate negotiations to get more money out of the other party, that is bad business.”

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‘We just wanted to sell the house’

The seller used the same agent they had worked with to buy the home. But while she was a great buyer’s agent, she didn’t measure up on the selling side. “She did zero negotiating with the buyers’ agent, even tried talking us into the buyers’ terms on their first offer,” the Redditor wrote.

The home was listed at the low end of its appraised value to reflect the slower fall market. It got attention quickly, including a second showing from a couple who brought both sets of their parents.

“All 4 parents were at the second showing, and all 4 were at the inspections, apparently following the home inspector around, questioning a lot of things,” the seller said. “The inspection report even included pics of ‘findings’ that had one of the parents in the pics.”

The seller agreed to a contract with minor concessions but was

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addendum that included up to $2,000 in septic and well repairs, which hadn’t been discussed. Despite this, they signed, thinking the house, which was in great shape, would pass smoothly.

Then things escalated.

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$40,000 in repair requests

A few days after the inspection, the seller’s

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showed a truck pulling into the driveway. “Three guys get out and put a ladder on my roof and start climbing,” the post read. No appointment had been made. The seller called their agent, who was unaware of the visit.

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Turns out, the buyers had sent friends to get quotes for repairs. The result? A $40,000 repair request, including $25,000 for a new roof that wasn’t flagged in the inspection report. Their friends claimed the roof had only two years left.

“I had a roofer come out and look at it and he said at least 10 more years life left, and a current replacement would be about $12.5k,” the seller said.

The sellers stood firm. No credits. No repairs. Not even $5,000 when the buyers’ agent asked. The buyers canceled the contract. The seller pulled the home from the market and fired their agent.

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‘Sometimes a ******* door opens’

By March, a former neighbor reached out. They asked if the home was still for ***** and offered to

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. The two parties worked through a

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, handled inspections properly, and closed the deal.

The seller not only avoided paying agent commissions but also made more money than if they’d accepted the earlier offer. “Everything went smoothly with no shady business,” they wrote. “Sometimes when one door closes, a ******* door opens.”

They added, “We gave [the new buyer] $20k off the market value since we weren’t using realtors. New roof: $12.5k. Cost savings to buyer by not using a realtor: $20k. And I even repaired a lot of the things called out in the first home inspection.”

“There is negotiating the best price, and then there is insulting sellers with manipulative tactics,” the poster concluded.

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