The buyers of my current house had their inspection done last Monday, but they waited until today . . . SUNDAY . . . to give me a copy of the inspection. I have to give them my reply by tomorrow. That in itself steams me. One can only speculate why they waited until two days before their "back out" date to give me the list of things they THINK should be repaired. Well, I have an ace up my sleeve. His name is Benny, and he's a good friend and a contractor, and he and his wife came over this afternoon and looked at the list and he assessed the situation for himself. He said they were probably hoping that I'd just deduct another $5 thousand off the price of the house to make the problem go away and then they'd pocket the money and never make the repairs. He said he can make 17 of the 21 repairs they listed (no one EVER does ALL of them) for under a thousand dollars, and he'll do them before the closing date. I'd like to be a fly on the wall and see their faces when they find out that I was able to contract for that many repairs in such a short time.
By the way, the garage sale was a very successful one. I got rid of a LOT of excess stuff and made some money taboot. By the end of the 2nd day, not much more than the junk was left. A little, but not much. We did have one mishap though. A woman was looking at a candle and turned to ask the price of it, but dropped it on the leaded glass top coffee table I was selling, shattering one of the six 12"x12" insets, which unfortunately makes the whole coffee table pretty much worthless. But . . . such is life.
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