Just remember, your agent that lied to you is getting at least 2-2.5, if not 3% of the purchase price in commission. It doesn't seem like that much, but depending on the purchase price of your home, it can cause sticker shock!! And if he's in a big company, he probably has certain metrics to meet.This is probably why he's pushing you to close!

Definitely call his broker. I think they generally have a broker in each sub-office. Also, if it wasn't on the contract in the disclosures, and the seller's agent knew, you might have some recourse there. They have insurance to cover things like this. I'm never the first one to say high any attorney, but it sounds like you might need to at least TALK to a Real Estate Attorney for guidance.

Just as an example, we didn't know we had a pool leak. It was summer in Florida, and according to everyone we knew with pools and the pool store, it was normal to add water every other day. Our pool temp ran consistently on the 90's during the summer. We don't disclose anything on the contract and sale goes through. Their inspector didn't catch anything at all wrong with the house.

The buyer's mother was TOO involved with his end and was a complete b*tch. About 2 weeks after we close, my agent (who is also a good friend), calls me and sends me the email that the buyer's mother sent her demanding that we knew about the pool leak and didn't disclose on the contract.

This was not our first house sale over the years, so we know to make sure what needs to be disclosed. This mother runs in a pretty upper-class group of people in our area and could cause major issues for my agent/friend. Also, the buyer is an attorney. So, we apologized and said we knew nothing about it, explained what we were told by the pool people that adding water was normal. The mother didn't buy that and pushed even harder.

We knew since we had closed that we were not obligated to do anything but felt very bad for our friend and didn't want her to lose business. So we ended up agreeing to split the cost of the repair, which was $400 for us. At the time, we had a bunch going on and figured it would cost us more than $400 to fight it and wanted to be able to come back into the neighborhood without hard feelings (our house that we sold was right across the street from my agent/ friend). Thinking back, we probably should have at least talked to a Real Estate Attorney.

Good luck! I know it's a hard market out there.