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Because of, in my opinion, his negligence the repairs will not be done by the original owners (unless we can work a deal out due to his error
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speaking about the list realtor.
His negligence?
Buyers Realtors fault - not explaining that sending a waiver in means nothing without acknowledgement that it has been received. Had this been done, I am sure the buyers would realize that if the sellers Realtor needs to acknowledge something, he can acknowledge their counter offer post inspection.
Buyers fault -Regardless of ones knowledge with buying property, it is common sense that sending in a waiver is the final piece to that deal and takes away any further negotiations. Either the buyer was prepared to fix this on his own and didn't want to run any risk of losing the property - then had a change of heart OR the buyer jumped the gun on sending the waiver in.
If that deal dies in the water because your realtor was unable to reach the sellers realtor and then the sellers are pissed off, negligence will now fall on the sellers realtor as he is forced to explain why the deal died.
At this point you simply tell the sellers, there is no deal on the table but here is a unconditional offer the exact same as the previous one for $2,000 less due to the mildew.
I think chances of them accepting that offer are much much much greater than re listing the property, waiting for another offer, negotiating the offer, spending a week in conditions and assuming there are no further negotiations.