Here's Hoping

At 6:30 Thursday morning, I got an e-mail from Cruella. "The inspector noted that the water was not hooked up to the refrigerator." She then cited obscure lines from the purchase contract that say if the water and power aren't on at the property, the inspector will go back out on the seller's dime to reinspect. Of course, the water and power are hooked up. Just not to the refrigerator. 

At 6:35 Thursday morning, I was on the phone with Doug and Carla, who informed me the water to the refrigerator was never attached in the entire time they lived there. They have a whole-house water filtration system plus they have dollar store ice cube trays. In fact, there is no way to hook up the water to the refrigerator without doing some major modifications. 

I wrote Cruella back, explaining that water pipe was never attached to the refrigerator to begin with. I also told her because she is so familiar with the purchase contract, please review lines 191-192 where it says the buyer is buying the home in the same physical condition from when they first saw it (and the refrigerator water line wasn't hooked up then) and also line 59 which denoted the refrigerator is personal property, not real property, therefore this particular part of the contract she quoted doesn't really matter. 

Then with Doug and Carla's blessing--and this is the BEST part--I told Cruella if her buyer disapproves of the whole-house water filtration system and will be moving on, could they please let us know as soon as possible. My seller wants the home to go to the right person and if her buyer isn't it, they'd like to get it back on the market as soon as possible.