A couple of weeks ago, we made an offer on a place, it was accepted, and then we had an inspection done. The inspector pointed out a few small suggested repairs to be done.<\/p>\n
We initially thought we could\/should just put the repairs in the contract, but our attorney said he’s hesitant to put them in because sometimes a bank will hold up a closing and say they want to come and inspect the repairs. He said that we should try to press the owner to make the repairs prior to signing the contract, since the repairs were minor. <\/p>\n
Is this pretty standard practice? We certainly don’t want to sign and leave ourselves no recourse if they decide not to do the repairs, but I also don’t want this to drag on for weeks with no signed contract. Anybody else had a similar experience? How did you handle it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A couple of weeks ago, we made an offer on a place, it was accepted, and then we had an inspection done. The inspector pointed out a few small suggested repairs to be done. We initially thought we could\/should just put the repairs in the contract, but our attorney said he’s hesitant to put them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-39560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real_estate"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/12\/repairs-in-the\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Repairs in the Contract?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/12\/repairs-in-the\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/12\/repairs-in-the\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Real Estate","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"pringler"}],"creator":["pringler"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-12-21T11:25:13Z","datePublished":"2009-12-21T11:25:13Z","dateModified":"2009-12-25T14:42:11Z"},"rendered":"