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Buyers agent problems

We received an offer on our house that was 2k over asking with 3k closing cost. The house sold in 2 days which is standard for the neighborhood. The buyers appear to be first time home buyers and are apparently ecstatic about it. After the inspection the buyers agent ran into my wife in the driveway when she returned and told her that they didn't find much but made it a point to say that her average inspection garnered $6k in concessions. We thought it was an odd thing to mention. Today was the 9th day of the inspection period and we got the requests back. They have asked for about $2k in repairs (prices assumed by inspector) and another $4800 in closing costs/concessions that they want. At the bottom of the inspection report the total was $6200 dollars for the potential repairs. These repairs were ridiculous: $200 to fix the touch less faucet in the kitchen that "doesn't work without the sensor". $200 because a slide out partition was missing in one of our kitchen cabinets . . . its in our laundry room and can be put back in. So we told them they could have $2k or the repairs which, in our opinion, was a good deal. Before even submitting this to the buyers, the buyer's agent called our agent and asked if we were sure thats all they (us) are willing to offer. Then she proceeded to expand on her logic that we are making out good on this because we are only losing out on $1k, referring to the offer on the house, and that we should be willing to give up more. It appears as though she is treating the inspection report as a means of getting her buyers to pay less rather than to get things fixed that are key items. There are very few things wrong with our house and we feel like this agent is getting in the way of this nice young couple from buying our house by using the inspection report as a way of asking for extra money because she feels its only fair that we give up more. What would happen if I contacted the buyers on Facebook? Or used a mutual friend on Facebook to speak to them indirectly? Since these are first time home buyers I feel they are being led astray by their agent.

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