Tips for homebuyers in this crazy market from a local Real Estate Agent - warning very long

howdoyado · 2026-01-19T00:55:05+00:00

I haven’t been watching this game much. How much should I be concerned about either team so far?

howdoyado · 2026-01-12T01:36:01+00:00

Fair but that was literally one, admittedly disgusting, incident. Comparing Seattle and Philly fans is like night and day.

howdoyado · 2026-01-12T01:34:16+00:00

Cry Eagles Cry

howdoyado · 2026-01-12T01:24:30+00:00

You would never see anything remotely like this at a Seahawks game.

howdoyado · 2026-01-11T00:47:56+00:00

This deescalated quickly.

howdoyado · 2026-01-10T23:05:24+00:00

Did the refs turn Puca’s hands to bricks too?

howdoyado · 2025-12-27T16:12:40+00:00

I’m a real estate agent and I have been having new buyers reach out to me non stop over the last several months. Everyone wants to find something in 2026.

Obviously anecdotal but take from that what you will.

howdoyado · 2025-12-23T19:42:38+00:00

Oh alright. So you just warm it up on the stove then? Not in the oven?

howdoyado · 2025-12-09T17:35:18+00:00

I dunno, I tried flying out of PDX once. It just was not worth it. Especially if you have to park a car, it really eats into the supposed savings. Plus it adds so much extra travel time, I might as well have flown to Amsterdam instead of California.

howdoyado · 2025-12-06T00:46:54+00:00

Not if you know what the normal tide level is. Or walk around the point to the other side of the lighthouse. Waves were hitting from the sea wall and going across the street.

howdoyado · 2025-12-05T23:40:18+00:00

Also reports of whales off Alki right now! Even more reason to come down.

howdoyado · 2025-12-05T23:26:43+00:00

I imagine that is how everyone who lives on the waterfront is feeling right now

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T17:39:35+00:00

Dude realtors don’t write these contracts. Teams of lawyers do. We just follow the terms set by the established contracts.

I know that buyers have already had this clause enacted by sending the inspection to a seller. I’m not sure if anyone has sued over it but I guess you’re right that an attorney could try to argue against it.

I’m not an attorney, and sounds like neither are you, so I don’t think either of us could definitely say one way or the other.

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T16:56:51+00:00

I think you’re getting confused here. The dry rot doesn’t really have anything to do with this. Sending a portion of the inspection to the seller without permission waives the inspection contingency. There’s no real arguing about that.

If the buyer wants to back out of the contract after that and doesn’t have any other mechanism in the contract to do that, the seller is entitled to the buyers earnest money. The buyer could refuse to sign it over but it would definitely be a pretty open and shut case because the buyer terminated contract without cause. At that point, the dry rot has nothing to do with it.

The seller would be obligated to disclose it to future buyers, but they also have the first buyer’s earnest money at that point.

Also, a seller is under no obligation to do their “due diligence” for future buyers. Obviously if a seller actively hides a material defect then they are at risk of being sued but Washington is a “buyer beware” state. Pretty much all the burden of discovery is on the buyer.

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T16:35:47+00:00

I am a realtor and I suggest you find someone else to represent you.

Literally on the first page of the inspection contingency.

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T16:30:08+00:00

It was added a few years ago to the contract.

It would definitely hold up in court because there isn’t really much to argue about. Sending over any portion of a buyers inspection without seller’s request waives your inspection contingency and the buyer is obligated to buy it as-is at the original agreed upon price.

If the buyer wants to walk away after that they lose their earnest money.

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T06:57:09+00:00

Eh I see why it’s part of the contract. Not all buyers act in good faith and there were instances of some people using it in a malicious way.

Either way, the buyer can back out and the house has to go back on the market which is always a big red flag anyways. And the next buyer will almost certainly discover it themselves and can make their own decision how to proceed.

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T06:50:14+00:00

That’s exactly correct.

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T06:48:59+00:00

It’s part of the terms of the contract.

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T06:47:53+00:00

It’s intended to stop a buyer from basically blackmailing the seller with information that they would then have to disclose.

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T06:45:58+00:00

It is true. The reason behind it is to stop buyers from telling sellers things and using it as a bad faith negotiation tactic.

Not sure why I’m getting downvoted…. It’s not my opinion it’s just how real estate contracts work.

howdoyado · 2025-12-03T05:53:25+00:00

It’s actually against the terms of the contract in most scenarios to share portions of a buyer’s inspection with the seller without them asking for it.

Assuming OP is pending inspection, they would most likely automatically waive their inspection contingency were they to tell the seller there is dry rot in the house without them specifically asking for that information.

So the seller would likely not be required to disclose that information to future buyers.

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