We are under contract to buy a house. The hvac system is 17 years old. It has a leak somewhere, is low on refrigerant and isn’t keeping the house cool. During our inspection, it was called out. So we got an hvac guy to look at it. He said it will be $6,500 just to put in the outlawed R-22 refrigerant, but first he has to find and fix the leak in the coil which would cost at least $2,000. So around $8,500 to fix the 17 yr old system. For about $9,000 the seller can put in a cheap new hvac system. We want the high efficiency middle of the line hvac system for $20,000. We asked seller to pay $14,000 towards new hvac that we can install after we close. Part of why we asked that is the house needs 3 new windows as well. They totally refuse and are only offering us $5,500. Seller said that’s his firm and final offer. And he is refusing to fix anything else. We asked him to uncover the weep holes in the brick that someone he hired stupidly filled in. We feel jipped by this seller because $5,500 won’t even cover the cost of fixing the existing old & broken hvac. So we are leaning towards walking away. Does everyone agree we should walk away from this ridiculous seller? If we walk away, he will have to disclose the problem to future buyers, and replace the hvac, which would cost him more than the $5,500 he offered to us. It is so frustrating to be dealing with a seller like this. His house has been for sale on the market for 6 months now.
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