Doormat
I’m not a fighter. I didn’t keep the deposit. In order to keep it, I’d have to hire an inspector who could prove my basement has never flooded and it would be ME who would have to pay for that inspection. Which would cost practically the same amount as the deposit. More important, though, is that I couldn’t accept any other offers on my house until the entire issue was resolved. It’s already been off the market a month and this is the time of year people are out looking.
What we DID do, however, was get out of our contract with our realtor. We’re going to sell it ourselves. That gives us a lot more flexibility on the price. And since we’ll be moved out of it soon, it’ll stay clean.
I’m beating myself up for not fighting this. It’s already cost us another month’s house payment, but I can’t risk this getting tied up in court and me having two house payments to make every month. It just isn’t worth it.
