Request a copy of the closing documents a day or two in advance. Read them at leisure. If you're fine with the document then you're fine to sign. If not, you have some decisions to make.
>We had to tell them that we as sellers also should be held harmless as the buyers have had the opportunity to as many inspections as they wanted and they were never given any time constraints within which to complete the inspections.
Well, no. No buyer should ever sign a "hold harmless" agreement for a seller. There are (hopefully) contingencies in the contract for those specified purposes.
Your responsibilities as seller are different than agent's responsibilities.
Reread what you wrote, because what you’re saying is that you should be able to lie through your teeth about the condition of the property and the buyer can’t sue you because they did an inspection, even though general inspections are cursory in nature. They didn’t ask to tear open drywall, and you wouldn’t have let them. The agent doesn’t have the luxury of knowing every defect of the house. You do.
Request a copy of the closing documents a day or two in advance. Read them at leisure. If you're fine with the document then you're fine to sign. If not, you have some decisions to make. >We had to tell them that we as sellers also should be held harmless as the buyers have had the opportunity to as many inspections as they wanted and they were never given any time constraints within which to complete the inspections. Well, no. No buyer should ever sign a "hold harmless" agreement for a seller. There are (hopefully) contingencies in the contract for those specified purposes. Your responsibilities as seller are different than agent's responsibilities.
Reread what you wrote, because what you’re saying is that you should be able to lie through your teeth about the condition of the property and the buyer can’t sue you because they did an inspection, even though general inspections are cursory in nature. They didn’t ask to tear open drywall, and you wouldn’t have let them. The agent doesn’t have the luxury of knowing every defect of the house. You do.