My jurisdiction is: Florida
We are in a contract to sell an inherited home. Both siblling do not reside where the home is. The selling price was agreed on , the home was inspected. We sent our handyman in to complete items we felt were valid claims. The buyers are insisting we hire a licensed HVAC person to approve the working condition of the HVAC unit. We don't belieive that it is warranted since we spent 3 weeks in the home and had no problems with its function. According to the contract appliances need to be funtional at time of closing. The inspector reccomended it be looked at due to what he called excessive vibrating of the sysytem. We do not believe it is vibrating excessively nor that it has anything to do with the functionality of the unit. Must we hire an licensed HVAC technician?
ALso, more importantly. We made an offer, up for negotiation, to our realtor to ask the buyers what they actualy wanted done with the minor repairs on the roof. Would they accept a credit at closing to have the repairs done by themselves or would they prefer we have it fixed? We also spoke to her about the above issue trying to find out whether a licensed person is warranted. Our realtor responded in email the next day with the buyers realtor email attached. It stated .....Since the buyer's realtor decided to have our handyman do some work for her in her own home after she saw his work in our home, she called our handyman and asked if he could go into our house after the weekend and fix other things from the inspection report and get a licensed HVAC person in to look at the system. She assured him he would get paid at closing from us the sellers. We never consented to this. We told our handyman he is not permitted into our house until furthur notice. Can you please advise on whether or not laws were violated? We believe there is a conflict of interest here, as well as a code of ethics issue. What recourse do we have. Our realtor replied by email to us after we called her out on this, and said she had nothing to with it. However in the prior email she said "The list is very short and if you want to call your handy man to get his prices" tells us that though she was not part of the buyers realtor's misconduct she obviously was not objecting to it. Please advise
Thank you in advance for your help.
We are in a contract to sell an inherited home. Both siblling do not reside where the home is. The selling price was agreed on , the home was inspected. We sent our handyman in to complete items we felt were valid claims. The buyers are insisting we hire a licensed HVAC person to approve the working condition of the HVAC unit. We don't belieive that it is warranted since we spent 3 weeks in the home and had no problems with its function. According to the contract appliances need to be funtional at time of closing. The inspector reccomended it be looked at due to what he called excessive vibrating of the sysytem. We do not believe it is vibrating excessively nor that it has anything to do with the functionality of the unit. Must we hire an licensed HVAC technician?
ALso, more importantly. We made an offer, up for negotiation, to our realtor to ask the buyers what they actualy wanted done with the minor repairs on the roof. Would they accept a credit at closing to have the repairs done by themselves or would they prefer we have it fixed? We also spoke to her about the above issue trying to find out whether a licensed person is warranted. Our realtor responded in email the next day with the buyers realtor email attached. It stated .....Since the buyer's realtor decided to have our handyman do some work for her in her own home after she saw his work in our home, she called our handyman and asked if he could go into our house after the weekend and fix other things from the inspection report and get a licensed HVAC person in to look at the system. She assured him he would get paid at closing from us the sellers. We never consented to this. We told our handyman he is not permitted into our house until furthur notice. Can you please advise on whether or not laws were violated? We believe there is a conflict of interest here, as well as a code of ethics issue. What recourse do we have. Our realtor replied by email to us after we called her out on this, and said she had nothing to with it. However in the prior email she said "The list is very short and if you want to call your handy man to get his prices" tells us that though she was not part of the buyers realtor's misconduct she obviously was not objecting to it. Please advise
Thank you in advance for your help.