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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP back again, and thanks for the posters who were helpful. I'll see if my friend can show the contract to a lawyer (which I am not). I promise I'm not a troll, just concerned that my friend is spending a lot of money on a house and that she'll have to sink even more money in to fix shoddy work. [/quote]

What the heck are you talking about, "sink even more money in?"  You've described cracks, "wavy" drywall, thin paint, and a missing baseboard.  Spackle is like 10 bucks.  A can of paint is 100 bucks if you go nuts. Drywall is like 50 cents per square foot, and baseboards are like $1-2 per foot.  This (from what you have described) sounds like a weekend or maybe two of work and $1000 max.

I cannot imagine it being worth it to pay a lawyer to get involved over this.  If the house is otherwise good, this seems like you (and/or your friend) are just having buyers remorse and looking for an out.  If they just don't want the house, rip the bandaid off and walk away, lesson learned.  If they do, suck it up and get it fixed themselves to their own satisfaction.
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OP here. There are additional fixes she'll have to do that the agent conveniently left out of the work the seller was to do (a big one was removing carpet in half the house, which has to be done to help with the smoke smell). [b]I think my friend was too trusting of her agent. [/b]And yes, the work that's been done badly is cosmetic, but at the same time, why should she be told the work would be done and then have to pay to redo it? [/quote]

Your friend did not read the paperwork she signed. Period. If she had read the paperwork, she would have seen that the work she wanted the sellers to fix/remediate was not listed in the paperwork and she would have asked the real estate agent to rewrite it. But she didn't read the paperwork. She needs to stop blaming the agent, this is her own fault.[/quote]

It's the agent's fault too. It's the agent's responsibility to get the paperwork right although obviously the buyers shouldnt have signed it. [/quote]

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