Closing On A Home, Listing Agent Committed Fraud.
My fiancée and I are in the process of closing on a home, our closing date is actually in 4 days. During the inspection period we found some pretty severe damage to the sewer line. We asked that the seller address it, to which they agreed.
Around a week later they sent us an invoice, saying that the sewer line was scoped and hydro jetted. The listing agent sent the invoice to our transaction coordinator. Insinuating the work had been done. I asked for a full report so I could assess the damage before we went to close. A week went by and crickets, didn’t hear from the listing agent, didn’t hear from the seller. Nothing.
So I take it into my own hands to contact the plumbing company they had do the work. They tell me that they arrived to do the work 1/15 and were turned away and told they didn’t have the ability to provide payment and would reschedule with them at a later date. This never happened. I also shared with them a copy of the invoice and was told that it wasn’t even their invoice. It was a forged invoice that was wrote up by who we assume is the listing agent.
What do I do from here? We are a few days from closing and I want out of this contract. Any advice?
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