Tod Watkins....Took 2 weeks to get earnest money to us...covered up a botched loan app for seller or himself. He or the buyer sent the entire buyer's home inspection to Quicken rather than the agreed upon repairs. Among the items a repair to a part of the roof that dipped in due to settling. No leakage, no cracks, roof had been looked at by 3 other inspectors when we bought and refi'd and pronounced fine. He forwarded us an email by a roofer who claimed to have gone to City of Kennewick, claimed they knew all about the house, claimed they said it would cost upwards of $8000 to "fix". Someone lied. I showed the City of Kennewick Bldg dept and code enforcement the email and they knew nothing about it, said they would never quote a price. Tod held up the sale for 3 months, finally used the lies in the email as an excuse to get out of the sale because Quicken refused the loan. Cost me $1000's in extra house payments, interest on 2 houses, utility bills on 2 houses as we had closed on house we were buying thanks to the assurance of the buyer's boss that her job was secure in a weird letter he sent us. We had to put the house on the market 2 weeks before Christmas, a terrible time to sell.
House finally sold....and the roof in question was deemed just fine by both new buyer's inspector and FHA appraiser as well as carpenter we hired to look at it. Too much hair gel, not enough honesty with this one. read more