Can/should we sue? Listing lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So it's okay for listing agents to say whatever the hell they want on the listing? And I'm at fault because I didn't bring a tape measure to the viewing (where I had maybe 10 minutes to look around the house)? Yes, I love the house, and no I don't want to back out. But when I looked at the house again (When I went with the painters), everything felt......... smaller. Much, much smaller.

And now the only way I can walk from the house is by losing a hundred grand? This is 25% smaller than they listed it as being!

Apparently the listing agent listed the sq footage used for taxes-- so that's hardly "whatever the hell they want". If you are going to make an offer on the house with $100,000 at stake if you change your mind (and who knows how much you offered), perhaps you should spend more than 10 minutes there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you hope to win by suing? Money based on the square feet you are not getting?

Yes. I'd like a reduction of 25% of the purchase price. We escalated to win the house, thinking it was giant and we'd live there forever. Well, we're getting 1/4 less what we thought we were buying, and I'm thinking that long term those extra square feet will be missed.

So someone else was willing to pay just under what you did?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the house was only smaller to you AFTER the painters told you so, correct?

You should have been able figure out how much sq ft the house had when you viewed it. This isn't some kind of rocket science to figure out. Also, ask for the floor plan and get the estimates off of there for room dimensions. Lastly, some real estate agents will count closet space and other dead space in the total sq ft when listing.

To back out, you don't need to lose money. Pick a flaw in the inspection report and back out based on that.

No, the second time I saw the house, it felt smaller. The painters only confirmed this. I said something to them like, supposdly this place has 2700 square feet, but it feels smaller right? They laughed and said, no lady, it's like 1800 square feet.

I have the floor plan, that allegedly works out to 2700 square feet. I think the floor plan was manipulated.

We waived inspection (got a pre offer inspection) to win the house. All the other contingencies have expired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. So it's okay for listing agents to say whatever the hell they want on the listing? And I'm at fault because I didn't bring a tape measure to the viewing (where I had maybe 10 minutes to look around the house)? Yes, I love the house, and no I don't want to back out. But when I looked at the house again (When I went with the painters), everything felt......... smaller. Much, much smaller.

And now the only way I can walk from the house is by losing a hundred grand? This is 25% smaller than they listed it as being!

Apparently the listing agent listed the sq footage used for taxes-- so that's hardly "whatever the hell they want". If you are going to make an offer on the house with $100,000 at stake if you change your mind (and who knows how much you offered), perhaps you should spend more than 10 minutes there.

Question for you- how's the weather where you live? Because you obviously don't live in DC. We had only a few minutes to look at the house, period. That's normal around here for houses that are competitive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you hope to win by suing? Money based on the square feet you are not getting?

Yes. I'd like a reduction of 25% of the purchase price. We escalated to win the house, thinking it was giant and we'd live there forever. Well, we're getting 1/4 less what we thought we were buying, and I'm thinking that long term those extra square feet will be missed.

So someone else was willing to pay just under what you did?

Yes, it's a gorgeous house. Small.... but gorgeous.

[Anonymous]

I noticed you mentioned you had an appraisal. The appraiser should have measured. Have you looked at the appraisal to see what it says? I would think the appraisal is more accurate than a painter....

[Anonymous]

We waived inspection (got a pre offer inspection) to win the house.

Presumably the inspection was longer than ten minutes? Or did you not go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the house was only smaller to you AFTER the painters told you so, correct?

You should have been able figure out how much sq ft the house had when you viewed it. This isn't some kind of rocket science to figure out. Also, ask for the floor plan and get the estimates off of there for room dimensions. Lastly, some real estate agents will count closet space and other dead space in the total sq ft when listing.

To back out, you don't need to lose money. Pick a flaw in the inspection report and back out based on that.

No, the second time I saw the house, it felt smaller. The painters only confirmed this. I said something to them like, supposdly this place has 2700 square feet, but it feels smaller right? They laughed and said, no lady, it's like 1800 square feet.

I have the floor plan, that allegedly works out to 2700 square feet. I think the floor plan was manipulated.

We waived inspection (got a pre offer inspection) to win the house. All the other contingencies have expired.

So you wanted it bad enough, after viewing it mind you, that you put down $100k and an escalation clause, and only later decided it "feels smaller." Sounds like buyer's remorse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I noticed you mentioned you had an appraisal. The appraiser should have measured. Have you looked at the appraisal to see what it says? I would think the appraisal is more accurate than a painter....

We haven't gotten the appraisal back yet. Thanks for the tip - I'll hound my agent for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They said the house was 2700 square feet, but it looks like it's closer to 1800 square feet.

How could YOU not notice this huge difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We waived inspection (got a pre offer inspection) to win the house.

Presumably the inspection was longer than ten minutes? Or did you not go?

I did go, and they didn't measure the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

We waived inspection (got a pre offer inspection) to win the house.

Presumably the inspection was longer than ten minutes? Or did you not go?

I did go, and they didn't measure the house. [/quote

And by I went to the appraisal, I met the inspector in front of the house, got the report, and had to leave. I didn't get to follow him around.

[Anonymous]

You are a moron. the listing is pretty accurate consider the tax record is 1800 sqrft and measures the top 2 floors, then the basement would be 900 + 1800 which is 2700.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They said the house was 2700 square feet, but it looks like it's closer to 1800 square feet.

How could YOU not notice this huge difference.

How does this comment help anyone? Don't you have something better to do?

I like how everyone here is jumping on my back instead of saying yeah, the listing agent lies. Here's what you can and can't do.

Seems like a lot of out of work realtors are on the website. Go find some listings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

We waived inspection (got a pre offer inspection) to win the house.

Presumably the inspection was longer than ten minutes? Or did you not go?

I did go, and they didn't measure the house.

That was your opportunity to measure the house if that was important to you. Measurements are not part of a home inspection, pre- or otherwise.