Inquiry from a Disgruntled Seller

You inspected our older home that needed some serious updates (priced accordingly) for some prospective buyers. We just heard from their realtor that they are pulling the offer. We offered them $200 for your inspection report but were turned down. Apparently even their realtor didn’t get to see the report. Why the secrecy? We would really have liked to scrutinize what you had in your report. Your clients realtor verbally told my realtor about one thing. You said that the water line to our home from the city is leaking and your evidence was a depression in the middle of the front yard. Our water line goes down the east side of the property and enters the house on the southeast corner and the closest it gets to that depression is about 35 feet. The depression by the way was caused by the removal of an ugly stunted tree. We just never filled the depression. He could have easily gone to the city to find where our water line was but he is obviously not anywhere near as thorough as this salespitch of a website makes him out to be. I will be very surprised if this actually makes it onto the website.

Dan,
It was hardly the aged waterline that caused my client to walk. Actually you are wrong, the water service pipe is in direct line of the depression. I’m not sure what you are thinking of.

Simply they did not wish to argue every deficiency with you. I would have been very pleased to provide a link to their report file as advertising but it is not mine to use, also that would require you disclose the report to other buyers. I do not share reports because of liability issues and getting into arguments with disgruntled sellers.