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It's curtains for you
Apr. 24th, 2010 08:54 pmThis morning we were dragged away from our Saturday plans to drive across the city to a fascinating meeting about curtain rods.
I haven't updated the house situation for a while - the purchase and sale agreement has been signed and the bank are now looking deeper into our financial details and requesting a very large number of forms signed by multiple people, but we have a checklist on some stupidly large legal-size paper and are on top of sending all of these around through the ether. The main issue for today is that the sellers realized that they forgot that they wanted to take their curtain rods, even though they weren't included in the signed purchase and sale.
Naturally I said at first that I couldn't bring myself to care about the curtains or the bits they were attached to, but they chose to phrase this in a strangely sneaky way - instead of admitting their mistake and asking us if they could take them, they chose to say that they would include the curtain rods in a bonus $350 package offered to us that included a couple of spice racks and their ancient leaky microwave. We're already meant to have everything that's nailed down and isn't included as an exception, so it's likely that they're trying to make up for their mistake and some of the money that they made on their repairs by getting it back from us.
We've counter-offered that they can take their rods if we're provided replacements to the value of about $250 (as they've mentioned that these rods are worth about $1,000, which is frankly a bit more than I think curtain rods are worth) - and that's a bit of a change for a counter-offer, but if they don't accept that, I'm going to push all I can not to get the lawyers involved over such twittery.
My only consolation is that said blocked Saturday plans consisted of going out to look at doorknobs.
I haven't updated the house situation for a while - the purchase and sale agreement has been signed and the bank are now looking deeper into our financial details and requesting a very large number of forms signed by multiple people, but we have a checklist on some stupidly large legal-size paper and are on top of sending all of these around through the ether. The main issue for today is that the sellers realized that they forgot that they wanted to take their curtain rods, even though they weren't included in the signed purchase and sale.
Naturally I said at first that I couldn't bring myself to care about the curtains or the bits they were attached to, but they chose to phrase this in a strangely sneaky way - instead of admitting their mistake and asking us if they could take them, they chose to say that they would include the curtain rods in a bonus $350 package offered to us that included a couple of spice racks and their ancient leaky microwave. We're already meant to have everything that's nailed down and isn't included as an exception, so it's likely that they're trying to make up for their mistake and some of the money that they made on their repairs by getting it back from us.
We've counter-offered that they can take their rods if we're provided replacements to the value of about $250 (as they've mentioned that these rods are worth about $1,000, which is frankly a bit more than I think curtain rods are worth) - and that's a bit of a change for a counter-offer, but if they don't accept that, I'm going to push all I can not to get the lawyers involved over such twittery.
My only consolation is that said blocked Saturday plans consisted of going out to look at doorknobs.
