Does a home seller have to pay for radon mitigator

Re: Does a home seller have to pay for radon mitigator

• kris356 member

  

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Maybe she is at her bottom number and can't afford to. We did a FSBO and when we went back after our inspection, she was at her bottom number as to what she had to get out of the house to move. Maybe this is the case. She doesn't "have" to pay for anything. We found out that the HVAC system was a lot older than we thought but when we made our offer we had factored in things like the fact the house needed a roof/windows and some other things. 

  
  

  The only things she "had" to pay to correct was the issues that arose from the township's required dye test.

  
  

  And you are paying cash, so no one is telling her that she has to fix it ie a mortgage company. While paying cash does give you a leg up in some ways, it also hinders you in others like forcing people to fix things. You have to decide if you love the house enough to spend $1500 to add the mitigation system.

  
  

  
  

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• sophasgram

  

  August 2013

  Thanks ... But I don't know why you would let 700-1000.00 break a 120,00 deal

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• kris356 member

  

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  You don't know. Has she already given you money after the home inspection for other things? Did you get the house for less than asking? Who knows why people do things. 

  
  

  You can turn that back on yourself, are you willing to walk away for $700-$1000 more?

  
  

  
  

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• sophasgram

  

  August 2013

  And I am really wondering if there are other reasons she won't ... Other than this I I LOVE this house

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• kris356 member

  

  August 2013

  Then spend the money for the mitigation system. She may think radon is a scam, that she has lived in the house for x number of years and is fine so why does the house need a mitigation system. Maybe she doesn't like you, maybe she really doesn't want to sell. Real estate transactions can be very emotional for some people.

  
  

  
  

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• sophasgram

  

  August 2013

  What is fsbo

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• kris356 member

  

  August 2013

  
  

  sophasgram said:

  What is fsbo

  For Sale By Owner

  
  

  
  

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• lala5507 member

  

  August 2013

  If you love the house that much I would suck it up and pay for it yourself.  Some times you have to do things you don't really want to do in the buying/selling process.  You are right, she would have to disclose it to any other prospective buyers after this.

   
  

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• northhillsbride member

  

  August 2013

  Kris offers great advice. We recently sold and told the buyer, straight out at negotiations over sale price, that we were going to pay for nothing that would come up from inspection, if anything. We were at our bottom line.

  We knew radon testing would come back as showing nothing, as we just had a test done 6 yrs before when we bought. If the tst came back needing a mitigation system, we would have said no.

  But we were also confident that we were priced right, we had had a lot of foot traffic in the 3 weeks we were on the market before we went under contract, and we knew the buyer really wanted the house.

  Cash or financing didn't matter to me. He was already pre-qualified and t was money either way.

  
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• justme04 member

  

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  I know we need to put a mitigation system into our house but it isn't holding up our mortgage. Since we had initially walked from negotiations that were going no where only to have them come back after 2 weeks and willing to accept our first offer even we decided not to loose a place we loved over a max of 1500. Since that was the only major issue. Our mortgage only required that a broken window pane in the garage be replaced.
  
  If you really love the house I wouldn't let a little thing like a mitigation system scare you away. I mean I don't know what the levels were in your case but the systems don't seem outrageous. It would take bigger issues to make me walk. Like the first house we were u dee contract on: the foundation was problematic and needed major reinforcement and the entire electrical system was outdated and the box was maxed out and then some.

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