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Listing agent frustration

Our Listing agent came highly recommended to us! But she’s kind of rude to me. I’ve been so stressed about this whole thing I have two small kids and two dogs. It’s the middle of winter. Wherever I’ve asked questions or had concerns she’s been flippant with me but is super nice to my husband and sends smiley emojis and exclamations. When I said I was getting discourage and stressed she said “I’m trying to get you at asking price is that not enough?!” And now we are under contract which I am beyond thankful for.

But the inspector left a short term radon test in a terrible location- over an open drain in a laundry room between my furnace room (that’s open) and my wash and dryer. This is not up to epa standards and is asking for a failure and skewed data. When we asked her what to do she questioned us and then said “I don’t have my inspectors license so I don’t know. You can reach out to the inspector yourself.” This seems unprofessional! That’s the buyers inspector and I feel like the agent should do this. She finally agreed to after we asked her to. But what the heck? I’ve had to take some deep breaths. I’m disappointed in this whole process. Our house is super old (1949) so I’ve just been nervous wreck the whole time that it’s gonna fail and the buyers will back out and now this is happening! Advice?

EDIT: we are not trying to NOT find radon in our house. We just want the test to be accurate. The EPA standards say NOT to place in laundry rooms furnace rooms or closets. This is exactly where they placed the test. It says it should be placed in a living area like the part of the basement which is finished.

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