DR Jeanne's home buyers were idiots. And they just made a decision that I believe they will end up regretting in a major way. The same thing happened with my house. First buyers withdrew because of the inspection report, even though I was willing to do many of the fixes. One of the things they were most alarmed about was that the chimney had major damage. When, a week later, our second buyers came in and made their offer, their inspection report showed no damage whatsoever to the chimney. They bought the house, and made a lot of the repairs, which was part of our deal and the reason they paid full asking price. The first buyers, like Jeanne's, were first timers, the difference being that the guy was in real estate and should have known better (a novice, but still in real estate). I ran into him a year later and he told me that pulling out of that deal was the single stupidest thing he'd ever done and that he and his wife had regretted it ever since. Oh, well.
