Selling a house, need advice

[Lindagerr]

Thanks to all for the advice.

When it came to his punch list we said yes to all except putting GFI's in the kitchen this was not required by law. We eventually did it anyway. When he asked for more time(beyond what was stipulated in the contract) to get his mortgage approval we agreed immediately.

Our original asking price was 234,900 we came down in steps and had just lowered it from 219 to 209 the day before his offer of 192. We negotiated up to 202. For a 4 bd, 1 bath with unfinished basement in NJ some would consider this a steal.

I did call the town today and they said they "might" have permits from 25 years ago. We do have pictures of the approvals on skylights and framing. Part of the problem is we now live 6 hours away so we can't just go to the town clerk and ask for these things. Our lawyer says we do not have to provide the permits. It is his lawyer who only asked for 10 years so why is he mad at us if we were asked we could have told him the years things were done.

I have gotten more quotes for the radon still around $1700 so we will either offer him that much or get it done. Again the distance thing is a problem.

I am just frustrated, we have tried to be reasonable. We also just put $20K into repairs, replacements, full house painting and all new flooring just before we put it on the market. We really can not afford to put much more into it and we also can't afford to carry it much longer.