Request for Repairs & Final Walk Through
Request for Repairs
After reviewing the disclosures and your home inspection report, you can decide if you want to ask for repairs. If you do, send a notice to the listing agent with the inspection report referencing items from the report and asking them to be repaired prior to the close of escrow. You can also ask for a credit in lieu of repairs. Typically, if you have a short list of what is really important you, you will have a higher probability of success than a lengthy nit-picky list. There may be some negotiating involved with this process. If you do not come to agreement, you can cancel the escrow.
Once you have the Request for Repairs agreed to, you can remove the Inspection contingency. Keep in mind the list is not agreed to until the sellers have signed it agreeing to make the repairs.
Once all of your contingencies are removed you are now in a holding pattern until your final walk through which should be a few days prior to the close of escrow.
There are two reasons for doing this. First the property be in the same condition as it was the day you wrote the offer. The second is that any agreed upon repairs should be completed. If something has changed or is not completed, please provide the listing agent with a notice in writing regarding what is not completed.