We've been looking for a few months and the inventory in our area is just so insanely low. In our price range, in the towns we want there are like 5 houses. When a new house come on market it's under agreement before we can even make an appointment to see it.
So this one came on the market which was done by a flipper/ investor. They re-did the roof, siding, kitchen, driveway, bathrooms, flooring, deck, recessed lighting. It looks gorgeous and we love how we wouldn't have to replace anything major like the roof for a long time. The night it went on market, there were 5 offers OVER asking price and ours won. Honestly, if there wasn't the pressure of the other offers, I would have offered lower as the house is smaller than I hoped for. But I told myself it's in a great location with great updates, you can learn to live with smaller (so, not my dream house but felt like we had to jump on it since it's better than anything else available).
Well we've been back & forth with the seller on everything. They have said they pulled a permit for all the updates they did- lie. We got the permit from the town and it's only for the deck- they never got one for roof, siding, electrical, etc. We asked them to put a handrail on the back deck stairs per building code, they lied and said it's currently up to code and they wouldn't change it. My husband knows the code- it's not to code. Our inspector said the water tank is corroded and has low air exchange and needs to be replaced for $1500. They brought in some bullshit inspector who wrote an invoice saying it's perfectly fine and they won't replace it. We had the well water tested and it came back 3 times the EPA limit for arsenic, so it needs a $5-8,000 filtration system. The seller said he won't install but when we get a quote he will credit us the cost at closing. This scares the shit out of me because what if the quote is $5,000 and then we own the house and they come to do it and run into problems and it turns into an $8,000 job? There's no way to know that? We also don't even know how much of the already small finished basement this shit is going to take up. Or how much the system is going to cost us annually in maintenance/ new filters.
I dunno, my dad just keep saying it's a great house in a great location and we should just do whatever to buy it. But DH & I are second guessing it now. Like this is a lot of bullshit from the seller that we are going to have to deal with and fix, it's already at the max of our budget, and I'm just kinda over this house and how the seller is lying about stuff. We would lose about $1,000 to walk away now and risk not finding another house we like for months. So part of me is like just deal with it, there's nothing else to chose from, but then part of me is like no my gut doesn't feel right about this house.