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The sellers weren't at my closing.. The seller's agent was there to pick up the check, but he sat outside the meeting room. I can't imagine why the sellers would even need to be there. It just would have been akward and wouldn't have really added anything.
That's funny, because both of our closings in TX were "face to face" and I would have MUCH rather not gone that route if it had been possible. Both times, agents told us it was a state requirement.
Both times, the agents were wrong. Heck, I've had Texas closings where the sellers were already in North Dakota! I've had closings where one of the buyers was at the table with power of attorney for their spouse who was in Iraq and the sellers were there at a different time. I can count on half of one hand the number of closings where both buyer and seller have been there at the same time.
Now on the final walkthrough they are nitpicking one of the repairs we had done, even though it was completely legitimate.
To late for you, but this is one of the reason that I ALWAYS try to reduce repairs down to a dollar amount. The exception is if it's a perfunctary item for which there can be no subjective debate, such as having a licensed plumber replace the water heater to code, or an insurnace issue such as a hail damaged roof for which the new lender requires the repair to be complete prior to closing. Those are rare though.
We just closed on our home and found out the buyers realtor is the one that caused all the problems. They took it upon themselves to demand crazy things like even night before closing. They made a mistake though with miscommunication and showed up at the house for final walk through at wrong time. I gave the person 2 pieces of my mind and cornered them with the buyers there.
We ended up sitting on the back porch, showing them how everything worked and just chatting for about 4 hours till closing. They had no idea some of the things the seller agent made us do at supposedly their request. This agent nearly lost the sale for everyone.
As we loved our home and wanted someone else that would love it as well so glad it ended ok. The buyer agent worked us to death almost though and it was ridiculous. Lack of communication all around. Our agent was at their wits end as well. Moral of story is make sure it is not the buyers or sellers but one of the agents.
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reminded me of a need like in open adoption or something.
In New England anyways they tend to have closings with buyers and sellers together. It can get awkward. When we bought the couple was divorced (or divorcing) and it was I guess very nasty so the husband had his own personal "closing" in the morning where he signed everything with his attorney and we signed everything in the room with the wife and her attorney. It was a little awkward as we had some issues at the walkthrough just a few hours earlier and she had to come remove a bunch of junk that was left at the house. (per the contract all garbage, junk was to be removed). But it wasn't terrible, we just didn't really talk to each other.
On the selling side it was tough negotiations with our buyers but at the closing we all remained pleasant and they were pretty excited to be buying our home. After all was done they brought champagne in and offered some to us. Both realtors and we all had a toast. I think we were all glad it was over. :-)
We normally have face-to-face closings here, but I have requested separate closing times when I thought there might be an issue. The closing co. was happy to accomodate my request and we avoided a scene at the closing table.
I've sold seven homes, and had face to face closings twice. Both times I disliked the process, with the buyer always having "just one more request" before signing. I recommend separate closings, and would never attend a dual closing again.
Not really a big issue, but when we bought our first home it was from an older couple who had built and lived in the home for 40 years. I think they were a little confused that they were suppose to turn over the keys at closing because when the time came they looked at each other and their realtor and said that they still had stuff in the house so they couldn't give us the keys! We were cool about it though and told them we would be at the house in a few hours so if they could just leave the keys on the counter when they were done, that would be fine.
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