Should we buy this house or not?

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.

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

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.