Offering in a house where carpenter lied about being the owner

[Robert Aydelott]

Hello all. I have an offer in on a property that I toured yesterday and am wondering about some some red flags. As I toured the duplex, there was a carpenter in the kitchen doing some work, so the realtor asked him if he could open a door we weren’t able to open. The carpenter did so, and my realtor asked him if he was the owner as he had seen his name on a note (detailing how to shut off the water) and he replied “no no I’m just a carpenter”. It was a little weird and kind of awkward but I didn’t put too much thought into it. When I signed some paper work, I saw the sellers name and looked for his Facebook. WhatdoYa know it’s the “carpenter”. 

This just kinda raised a red flag for me and I’m curious on other people’s input. Would this make otherssuspicious of something? I don’t really like dropping 500k and being lied to by the owner.

Please give me your input! Thanks. 

[Kyle J.]

Personally I wouldn’t worry too much about it. It could be he just didn’t want to be bothered while he was working to talk about the property or answer questions about it, so he just said he was the carpenter instead of disclosing he was the owner so he could go back to work.