I took a homebuyers course before buying my home. From that point on I tried to do everything pretty much by the book. I found out how much home I could afford and found where I wanted to live and then found a real estate agent. I told my real estate agent not only the city I wanted to live in but the actual neighborhood as well. The only thing he had to do was find a condo for sale and seal the deal. It was at a time when the real estate market had just began to slow and homes were staying on the market longer and longer. I got the price I wanted and the condo I wanted. The seller offered $2000 closing assistance. I had an inspection done and sent the seller an addendum with all the things I wanted him to fix before I went to settlement. My real estate agent took the initial home inspectors back to the condo to re-inspect the property to see if everything was fixed. He got a letter from the inspectors and sent it over to the mortgage company, who would not let the condo go to settlement without more than half the items fixed. I went for my walkthrough and briefly checked over the items that should’ve been fixed. I was pretty confident that everything was ok because the inspectors and my real estate agent said it was. As it turns out it was not. I didn’t notice until moving day that the windows didn’t open. (That was on the list of items to fix.) I have since gotten the run around from the seller, my real estate agent and the home inspectors. All pointing blame at the other and all coming to the general conclusion that I should live with it and shut up. To make matters worse I just realized I never received a ratified copy of the addendum sent to the seller. Who can I or should I sue in this case? Or should I just direct my energy into fixing my non-opening windows?

Did you sign something that said that everything was fixed?

If so, then you are stuck with it.

Sounds like you did everything right until the very end. If you signed off on the repairs there is not much you can do now - unless, you can establish that you 'signing off' was contingent on the remaining repairs being done. This would be difficult to establish in the absence of written terms supporting your contingency claim.

If you have signed nothing - sue using the shotgun approach. Sue the realtor, home inspection agency and the home seller. Let them sort out where the chips may fall.

Steve @ www.buyingahouseandsavingmoney.com

I did not sign anything saying that I accepted that the repairs were complete. That is, unless buying the home constitutes me signing off on the repairs.