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[quote=Anonymous]I think having a rent back is one factor that can increase the likelihood of these surprises and similar ones. When you do the walk through just before closing, all of the seller's stuff is still there in place as they are using it just like before when the house was on the market.
Then during the rent back there is an awkward period (ours was a few weeks, but contractually was up to 3 months and they only needed to give us 30 days  notice ) when you own the house and are planning to move, but don't have the ability to move in and take over. During this time you may have numerous direct communications with the seller, as we did. You may establish a rapport and the expectation of good faith. By the time the final handover comes, you are just ready to have the whole process done with as it may have dragged on for months (3 months in our case counting a 60 day close). So you may not want to dicker over stuff at that point.

This is what happened with us. We wished to get along smoothly during the process including rent back, and we did, and fortunately they were trustworthy.
We did our final walk-through *without* our agent because by this time we had established the rapport. I would not do it that way next time, but we didn't know any better. There was some minor damage that had been hidden behind some furniture.( I don't believe it was intentionally misleading---it was giant furniture that I think had been there for ages). It was no big deal for us and the sellers were gracious about showing us around and little quirks of the house, but putting our experience together with the others mentioned here, I'd advise people to bring their agents to the final post-rent back walk through, and second, to plan on needing to have that conversation if there's a surprise.[/quote]

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