Hoping someone can help with this. My wife and I made an offer on a house a couple of weeks ago, they countered and we accepted. We signed a purchase agreement... Last week, we had the house inspected. There are some electrical repairs required to be brought up to code, the roof has a leak and it's about at the end of its life. The sellers are excited for us to have the house and are willing to work with us and possibly have the roof replaced themselves. That was our biggest concern.. Then we forwarded the inspection report to our loan officer. They sent back tons of things as "required" repairs.. Some of which are ridiculous. • The height of the chimney is too short if we ever intend to burn wood in the fireplace (we don't-it has a fully functional gas fireplace which is what we would use.) • The railing around the patio spaces, the decks, etc., are spaced too far apart or are too short. (Only a true hazard for small children-don't know any, never plan to have our own. Might be able to get around this though? With chicken wire or something placed behind the railing?) • The windows are not 5.7sqft. "Don't meet egress requirements." This would literally require replacing the windows?? Is that going to be truly necessary?? This is now our main concern. They aren't even very old and we are both relatively small people who would have no issue getting out of them in an emergency, which I assume is the potential issue. The sellers may be willing to replace the roof and these little things are going to be the reason we have to walk away from this house that we fell in love with. We emailed our loan officer to better explain and ask if all of these things are 100% necessary, but have yet to receive a response. Should we hold out any hope?
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