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It was built in 1987 and is listed as a 4 bd/2 bath. We went to look at it and 1 of the bedrooms does not have a closet. Can they really consider this a bedroom? Luckily my husband will be using it as an office so the missing closet isn't a big deal. But price-wise, I wonder if they priced it as a 4 bedroom.
Also, there is only 2 smoke detectors in the entire house. It's a single story. Shouldn't there be 1 in every bedroom?
Is this something that the sellers legally need to take care of before selling? (These are the original owners by the way)
Is it listed on the assessor's web site as 4 bedrooms? If it is just the MLS listing, it probably isn't something that needs to be "taken care of." Is it on a septic system? Sometimes they are sized according to the number of bedrooms.
Yes, they should have to provide the correct number of smoke detectors before closing. That should be address on the inspection.
Fooling around and asking the sellers to put in 2 or 3 $10 or less battery fire alarms is a very foolish thing to do. The more things you ask for, the less likely you are to be able to buy the home. The fire alarms can put what they are willing to do to sell the home, over their limit of things they will accept and for $20 to $30 you blow the purchase. A list of nickle and dime items kills more sales than you can imagine. Put important things, and expensive changes you demand, and forget nickle and dime items that can kill your chance to make the purchase.
The cleaner the contract, the more likely the offer will be accepted as is. The more you confuse things with nickle and dime requests the more apt the contract will be rejected. A bunch of nickle and dime requests, makes you look cheap, and sellers that would accept your price, etc., will just throw up their hands with a laundry list of cheap nickle and dime requests.
You say you are "interested" in a house... The things you mentioned shouldn't keep you from making an offer on a house. They can be addressed later.
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