Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Florida

I am currently on the process of buying a house, the seller signed a contract which closed on the 4th of January 2011. The contract had items the seller agreed to fix, but when the house was reeinspected the seller only fixed half of the items on the contract he signed. I was forced toextend the closing date and now the seller only wants to fix items they consider necessary, the ones that he/she consider cosmetic wont be fixed. Also they threatened to put the house on the market if I do not agree with what he/she wants. I already spent over 1,000 dollars on inspections and other charges. Now, since th eseller signed the contract before statign he was going to fix all the issues, are they leggaly bound to do it? Is the contract nullified because I had to extend the closing the date because of their failure to fix the problems as stated inthe contract the first time?


Asked on 1/06/11, 5:43 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Richard Kaplan

This is why you need to retain the services of an attorney to represent you. There are too many issues to resolve by a simple answer here. The first thing that an attorney would need to do is fully review the contract. Then they could answer your questions because many of the answers will be in the contract.

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Answered on 1/11/11, 9:04 am


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