On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:14:10 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 7/12/2017 12:46 PM, wrote:
>
>>>> And the $375 A/C repair today did wonders!! The first floor A/C is actually functioning as it should and keeping the first floor at 77F which is it's setpoint. And I even turned it down to 76F for nighttime! YUM!! And it does it easily now!!
>>>>
>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>
>>> That's kind of goofy. I would have made the sale contingent on the owners getting
>>> their property in compliance.
>>> That seems only right and natural.
>>
>> That's how it's normally done, or the seller reduces the price by what
>> it would cost to comply.... however in my experience a property
>> needing such extensive repairs takes so long to remedy and reinspect
>> that typically the closing doesn't happen. It was very foolish for
>> John to invest in the A/C before closing.... and having A/C is not
>> required for a CO. But this is a rather strange deal as John lives
>> there so is essentially renting with the option to buy (or first right
>> of refusal), whereas in such a case it's normal for any future rent
>> paid to be subtracted from the buyer's cost.
>
>Fixing the AC is probably the only thing I'd have paid for. If I'm
>living there I want comfort while waiting for the closing.

I thought of that but then I would have bought a window unit that I
could take with me when the deal falls through, which it will. The
buyer repairing the seller's house to make it salable is the most
asinine thing I've ever heard. John Kootchie is far more an ignoranus
imbecile than I had previously thought... he's of the scale of the
most ignoring putz on the planet.