Getting a new contract

After trying to reason with Mr. and Mrs. Seller about how the contract did just exactly what they wanted it to: sell their house to us for our agreed upon price, we decided that we were going to have to get our hands on the new contract.

Our lawyer did not have the new updated version of the contract, so we decided it would be best to contact the seller’s lawyer and have him write up the contract [especially being that we had no problem with the original contract and their lawyer did]. We were able to get a hold of him the next day and he wrote it up right away [Remember: everyday that this point was really pushing us to close on the last day of our lease].

He typed up the contract; Mr. and Mrs. Seller signed it and forwarded it our way. We put in the closing date to by July 31st [the last day of our lease] because that was the earliest date our lender would give us. We were really hoping that that if everything went smoothly we could finish earlier.

Phew… at least we weren’t extending our lease.

Next step: Home inspection and appraisal.

Question: Any good home inspection stories? Our home inspector for our old house missed a lot, thank goodness Matt was there to point out some things or they would have been left our of the report.