# Should we buy this house or not?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-buy-this-house-or-not/639920>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 5, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-buy-this-house-or-not/639920 "2012-11-05T04:08:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-buy-this-house-or-not/639920/21 "2012-11-06T01:54:13Z")

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I’m going to suggest something that some would find unethical. I’m not a lawyer, it’s your life, it’s up to you, etc…

Bring a generator capable of backfeeding 220v into the panel to get the power on for the duration of the inspection. Bring a curb wrench and turn on the water for the duration of the inspection.

Cheap money and effort to get a real inspection and who’s gonna know? What’s the worst that could happen?

I don’t think this is “suggesting illegal activiy” per se, but if a mod disagrees they may nuke my post with no argument from me.

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**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-buy-this-house-or-not/639920/22 "2012-11-06T11:22:45Z")

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> [@pbbth](#):
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> We called them this afternoon and turned down their offer. We also told them not to contact us about this house again since this was the third time we walked away from the deal and they keep coming back to us to give us a new offer. We will wait another year or two and save up the money to buy a house that doesn’t need that kind of repair in a better neighborhood instead.

Good for you! it needed to be done and I would have done the same but with one slight adjustment.

I would have super low balled them. Saying don’t call me back unless you will take ( insert here half the price of the current offer)

But that would be just to get a bit of satisfaction back from the hassle.

You did the right thing

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-buy-this-house-or-not/639920/23 "2012-11-07T05:29:25Z")

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> [@manila](#):
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> Good for you! it needed to be done and I would have done the same but with one slight adjustment.
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> I would have super low balled them. Saying don’t call me back unless you will take ( insert here half the price of the current offer)
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> But that would be just to get a bit of satisfaction back from the hassle.
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> You did the right thing

I would have been very tempted to have done the same - say, something like $100,000 even. You give me that price, and we’ll buy the house as is tomorrow. You can’t do that price, quit wasting my time.

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