My fiance & I signed a contract to buy a house in August. Once we signed the paperwork we were told that there was a contingency with the sellers, they needed to find a house before they would sell. We were upset that they weren't honest with us about it but gave the owners over a month to find housing.
Finally about a month ago they found a house and signed off on the contingency. They closed on their house last week and moved out. Our lawyer sent the paperwork on our broker 2 weeks ago and called me to say that it was all clear and left for her honeymoon. My fiance and I were supposed to close on our house today, but found out two days ago that there is a lien on the house. Now another laywer in the firm is taking care of our stuff and wont give us answers.
The owners of the house lied to us about the lien, our lawyer lied to us about it and we dont know how long it will take to clear up. Our real estate agent has been out of state and not much help.
What should we do?
2007-10-26
06:25:23
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No one would tell us about the lien, we were just told that there were some problems and the closing date would need to be moved because of some bank paperwork mixup. Our broker kept bugging the lawyer about what was going on and finally the lawyer told her they knew about a lien on the property for 2 1/2 weeks and started looking into it 2 weeks later!
2007-10-26
06:47:43 ·
update #1
Should we stick with the house or just back out now?
2007-10-26
06:48:43 ·
update #2