People can become complete idiots with home sales. The house I live in now was purchased from another dentist who was retiring. You'd think he'd be nice since we're in the same profession. The house was on the market for 4 days when we put in a bid at the asking price. The offer was accepted and a closing date was set on a rather aggressive schedule. Part of the agreement was the boiler needed to be replaced and some other work needed to be done - which they agreed to do. Three weeks later and two days before the closing my bank said they needed to push the closing date 2 days - something with UW but everything was all set.
This guy had a complete and total hissy fit - screaming and yelling full-on meltdown - mind you the house was still going to close less than a month from the day it was put on the market. We delayed it 2 days and then the day before the closing we find out NONE of the work had been done and now he needed TWO more WEEKS before he could get the work completed. I was not a douche like he was, however.
He left in a hurry and was moving into his house on The Cape but left some boxes in the basement. In those boxes were, and I'm not exaggerating here, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of gambling receipts from the last 30 years. This guy would go to Foxwoods and blow $5-50K at a time.
People can really suck sometimes.
P.S. His daughter still lives in town. We had a yard sale last year and she stopped by gushing about all the improvements we made. She got all teary-eyed as this was the house she grew up in. She asked if she could see the inside - I quickly said no and walked away - partly because she is a stranger, partly because of CV-19, but partly because her dad is an ass.
