phaeton wrote:

As you're now realizing, should have done that before....

Yeap... live and learn, endure and suffer..

The deal as written out by our offer is fine and dandy, it's just hard
to say what extracurricular crap they'll attempt to pull in the
meantime. Not real interested in having to maintain some form of
heightened "defense mode" all the time against their onslaught. Just
don't need that crap.

But, we'll see. Maybe I'm overreacting and naive, and this is fairly
run of the mill and standard practice/expectation. Maybe they'll have
their fun for now, and if i stand up to them they'll eventually quit
trying crap in the first year. Nobody ever said buying a home is a
painless, euphoric experience
0_o

What sort of "extracurricular crap" are you speaking about--in a
"normal" closing, there's an offer, maybe a counter-offer and either an
acceptance/rejection. There is nothing binding on either party outside
of that written agreement assuming it is within the rules of the
jurisdiction of note. You do realize, I hope, that even if there is no
one other than the two parties involved there are still the rules for
disclosure and all that folderol in many jurisdictions that are still in
force. You really should run, not walk to get any contractual
arrangement reviewed by a competent attorney. What have you done about
assuring the seller has a clear and legal title to the property in order
to sell it in the first place, that it is not encumbered by other
notes/liens, etc., or a target of a law suit/pending/current/former
divorce or a myriad other possibilities?

From your original post I assumed you were simply looking at a listed
property and wanting an independent evaluation...turns out you're
jumping in way too deep too fast it sounds like...