Asking for a friend, he made an offer but inspection found that house needs 25-30K repair work. Now he doesn't want to negotiate and withdraw but his agent (who is also sellers agent) saying he will lose his earnest money because its not structural problem. This doesn't sound right to me and he should get all his money back if he us not satisfied with report. What options he has now?

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In the inspection period, if he has an inspection clause he can pull out for any reason. The seller and buyers agent being the same person is a big conflict of interest

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Depends on what the terms in the contract were. If he limited inspection to just structural damage, then the $30k has to be in structural damage repairs vs other like cosmetic, etc.

Either way, the agent doesn’t matter, it’s the lawyers who discuss terms/negotiate or notify the seller that the buyer is going to walk away. Have him talk to his lawyer about what options are available given the inspection

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This is why you don’t use a sellers agent.

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This sounds wired to me. Isn’t he performing the inspection within the option period?

Thank you everyone, he is contacting lawyer to further process

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