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Question Regarding Repair

We close on our first home next week. Inspection noted the chimney needed serious repair but is no longer in use so we opted to bring the chimney down to the roof line and have a roofer come in to essentially waterproof it and shingle over it. We had specific writing in the amendment to bring it down to the roofline and sellers agreed to do this. Come to find out not only was it not brought down to the roofline but the roofer put a cap on it and removed a large portion of the chimney. We were told this is the best way to waterproof it and that bringing it down to the roofline could very likely result in a leaking roof and a huge expense to do this. Sellers have broken the amendment by doing this. We aren’t going to enforce the amendment given what the contractor mentioned (they don’t feel comfortable giving us a quote to bring it down to the roof line given the high likelihood of leaking). Is this something where we can come back and ask for more closing cost credit or should we not even worry about it at this point? I feel like it would be a scummy thing to do but I wanted to hear input from the community.

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