Am I being unreasonable with amended conditional purchase?
Hello all!
Essentially, I've been looking for a condo townhouse. I did find one in Ottawa and had started the process with a conditional offer, based on inspection.
When I got the inspection done, we had found that the unit was not very well maintained (was a rental), had many many small issues and some more major ones, the biggest being that the furnace would not work and was at life expectancy. The water tank was also 10 years over life expectancy. Other things included installation of a GFCI by a sink, repair ceiling in a closet that was left open to previous repairs, and other things of this nature. We excluded the majority if not all smaller items that we could do ourselves, but there was lots.
We had put these items in a amendment to the seller. and they returned with only replacing the water tank with another rental unit (so no real cost to them). My Realtor was also saying that we offended them with this amendment and that I shouldn't had done this, but my inspector privately told me to not sign anything unless they are willing to repair these items.
So my question is, were we being unreasonable with these amendments by asking the seller to replace or repair the above items? Who is more right? The Realtor or the inspector?