House Junk

We've been waiting and waiting to get anything started on our new house in Lakewood (see pics below) until we were sure the sale of our house is indeed going through.
We've had the inspection, the appraisal...so we should be good, right?

Wrong.

The buyer of our house wants everything fixed...and I'm not talking the things that DO need to be fixed. I'm talking about random weird things...like the phantom 2 tiles in the bathroom that she says are loose. The outside water faucet needs a new handle. She wants one of the missing screens replaced. She is asking our current neighbor why the units all don't have central air-conditioning? (didn't she read our inclusions before she made an offer?????)

Anyway we now have to repair the cracks in the stucco on the outside of the house. Those cracks have probably been there since 1930 but okay. She also wants us to paint the window sills and pull down all the pretty, eco-friendly vines that cover the house.

We told her no on the stucco and the vines but yes to everything else and she said she would "terminate the contract" and walk away.

What to do??

We are going to go ahead and fix it all for her even though we can't afford to. The problem is that if she walks, we have to list the house all over again and that would mean it would probably sell right when my school starts which would be horrible. She has us between a rock and a hard place so we're waiting till tomorrow to see how this all gets resolved.

Right now we think her realtor is going to pay for the stucco repair himself. Good. We'll see.

In the meantime, the inspection on our new house is scheduled for Friday afternoon. It's possible it may have some things wrong with it (just a feeling we have) so this is a big deal. Depending on what they say, we may or may not be homeless soon.

We'll keep you posted...