Sellers rammed their car into one of their doors on their two door garage. We live nearby and saw it, and we were immediately reassured by both agents that they would have it fixed or replaced.
They did have it replaced - with a white door. The other garage door is cream/off white. There is a visible difference between the two doors. Looks like the trim is different too. From what I can see from the street.
We already told our agent and he gave us some BS about it being "brand spanking new!" and that the color will change in a year's time to match the original door color. Total BS, the original door color actually matches the cream siding on the house perfectly.
We sign for the house at the end of the month but I mean, it's not like we will back out. Our house is sold and we are not NOT moving over this. Just wondering if we have any leverage or what should / could be done in this situation.
I also dont want to piss off the sellers. The house was well maintained when we saw it... I want it to be like that when we move in. But also, it makes me nervous that they would pull something like that, the facade looks ridiculous right now.
This is gonna be an unsympathetic post, but it’s on my mind. I’m in my early 30s and suddenly came into a very large inheritance after the unexpected death of two loved ones in close succession. I live in an expensive city and was sick of renting, so I decided to buy. I probably want kids at some point, but not for several years. At first, I looked at 1 or 2 bedroom places, but they didn’t always feel like a great deal for the money and hey, there’s entire townhouses that are “only” double the price! The money all felt sorta fake anyway, as large sums of unearned money tend to feel.
Somehow I convinced myself into buying a townhouse. My logic—which isn’t totally wrong—was that I risked growing out of a 1 or 2 BR if I had a kid in the next few years, and thus might take more of a hit on the sale—selling costs on those things were huge, like sometimes 13% of the sale price. Whereas a home I’d never outgrow, I guess. Nevermind the fact that I’m not even sure I wanna stay in this city, nor do I have a partner I’m ready to marry and settle down with. I was grieving and maybe feeling sort of fatalistic (or optimistic? I can’t tell).
So I bought the house. It’s very nice, and I feel crazy lucky to have it. I also feel like I made the wrong choice for where I’m at right now. The house feels too big for me, I feel so sheepish about having it that I avoid having people over, and the tradeoff for it being a house is that it’s not as centrally located as the condos. It’s not in the burbs, but I feel like I bought a “settle down and raise the kids” home when I’m very much not in that part of my life yet. So I’m just sort of… rattling around this big expensive house far from the action feeling stuck. It feels like I fast forwarded my life eight years into the future and now am stuck waiting for the future to come.
I can afford the place just fine, it’s not the money. Though I am definitely paying more money that I need to be, and if I threw in the towel and sold after just a year or two, let alone in this market, I’d lose a lot of money. And if/when I ever did need a house-sized home several years down the line…well I’m sure I’d feel kinda dumb too.
Like I said, I know I am so lucky to even have this problem, and some might ask what the problem even is if I like the place well enough and can afford it. Most people would kill for this problem. This knowledge compounds my regret. But I think I do regret it, or at least, I obsess over the choices I could’ve made, and I’m not sure what to do. Would anyone in their right mind sell? Am I depressed and anxious about life and just telling myself it’s the house? What would someone in their right mind do (maybe I already know the answer)? Do I just need someone to spray cold water in my face and tell me to snap out of it?