Buyer uses marital problems to cancel purchase

Sale of a detached house in the Weinviertel

A serious prospective buyer was already found for the beautiful bungalow at the first viewing. He was determined to buy the house and made an offer to purchase the entire purchase price the very next day. Shortly afterwards - as is so often the case after signing a purchase offer - the problems began.

It was all about negotiating what should remain in the house. It was agreed that the house would be handed over empty, which was also described accordingly in the exposé. But the prospective buyer didn't want to know anything about it. They literally negotiated for every piece of furniture and almost brashly demanded it.

The seller, who is still very emotionally attached to her house, was not at all happy about this, especially as she wanted to take some of the furniture with her.

The discussion about the curtain rails, which the owner did not want to give away, was the last straw.
In the evening, the prospective buyer called me and started making insinuations against the seller because she was holding on to her curtain rod like that.

I explained to the prospective buyer from a woman's point of view that this was not about value, but that it is not easy to find suitable curtain poles if they are to match the furnishings. I myself decorated my guest room as an African room with souvenirs from Kenya and spent a long time looking for a matching curtain rod until I finally found it. I wouldn't give it away again if I were to move the room.
This clarification didn't work either and the prospective buyer stubbornly switched on and sent me a text message the next day cancelling the purchase offer.

Not easy! A binding and countersigned purchase offer and, in the meantime, the purchase contract had been drawn up and some costs had already been incurred.

I suspected that there was more to it than just the furniture!
The client had told me about his marital problems and this turned out to be the real reason: his wife didn't want to move into this house.
However, the buyer did not realise what he had done by withdrawing.

The sellers were furious, especially as they had made a number of concessions regarding the furniture.

In the course of the reversal and daily discussions with the buyer and seller, I received another e-mail from the customer: He had now come to an agreement with his wife and wanted to buy the house after all.

When I informed the sellers of this, they were not enthusiastic, and in the meantime they no longer wanted to sell their house to this customer.

Conclusion: There is a binding and countersigned purchase offer and the cancellation has not yet been processed.

So the purchase contract is now concluded after all.

P.S: To be on the safe side, I won't let the two contract partners go at each other again - not until the house handover