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Seller of a House Changed Conditions of Sale After Receiving a Full Offer for Pr

I placed two contracts on a house, $8,900.00 and $4,900.00 less than the asking price. The seller rejected both offers without a counter. A month later I saw that the house was still on the market and place a full price contract on the house. Two days later I received a counter from the Seller. The counter stated that he wanted to sell the house ''as is'', the 9.65 acres of land that was listed was to be changed to 8.15 acres yet the price was to stay the same. There were several other issues yet none were listed in any of the real estate docments. Is this considered fraud? Is it worth seeing a lawyer over? The Seller is wasting both my time and my realtor's time. I am also concerned that the seller is trying to add more constraints to the sale even though they were never originally listed.


Asked on 5/26/03, 4:33 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: Seller of a House Changed Conditions of Sale After Receiving a Full Offer fo

The ad itself does not represent a binding contract and, as your case illustrates, may be nothing more than a ground point from which to start further negotiations.

This is not fraud nor anything illegal and, no, certainly not anything to waste your money in

consulting an attorney over.

However, given this questionable seller's dipsy doodle sales tactics, your better course of action may be to look for another property.

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Answered on 5/26/03, 7:01 pm


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