In article , (Sharon) writes:
At any rate, it's all finally come together, closing today at 1pm and
no other buyers on the house, so I'm going to give it to them. As much as it
would be fun to tell them to eff off, it would take going to court and I'm not
interested in doing that. Just give me my money, take the house and never
darken my doorstep again, thankyouverymuch! hah!

Pardon for replying to my own post, but this is too rich not to share.
I'm back from closing. Well, my half anyway. The title company had all the
paperwork and everything was ready to sign off on. We heard from the buyer's
agent that they were running about 5 minutes late. No problem says we. I sign
all my papers and chat with my agent and the title company lady. 45 minutes go
by with no sign of the buyers, so my agent calls the other agent again. He
dithers and hems, she tells him that they had a 1pm appointment for settlement
and where are they. He dithers and hems some more. Finally tells her that his
clients are picking up some office equipment and when they got home he'd call
her. My agent passes the phone over to the title officer who gets the same
story. Finally she tells him extremely sternly that she's already got 3pm and
4pm appointments so when they get around to showing up they'd have to sign the
papers as quickly as possible and go. I left but told my agent to let me know
what ultimately happens. I have a feeling based on past experience with these
people that they may show up at the title office next week sometime and then
wonder why everybody's rude to them.
I think this addresses Dimitri's reply to my OP where he said it looked
like they were trying very hard to purchase the property. Not so hard as to
actually be bothered to go to closing...
Off on a tangent again, and this is none of my business but we had time
to gossip; when my agent was telling the title officer the short-form of the
financing lies they got caught in, she raised her eyebrows at the "my husband
owns the other two houses, this will be mine" excuse. She leafed through the
paperwork and confirmed it: the buyer claimed she was single on the loan
application. (This is important to the government for tax reasons.) We
just shook our heads at each other and agreed that the mortgage company was
really stupid for going through with this because it SCREAMS pending
foreclosure.

- Sharon
"Gravity... is a harsh mistress!"