buyer found new repair items 4 days before closing

[Shawn Thom]

I am hoping to close on my first rehab/sell this Friday.

During the inspection period the buyer did identify 2 plugs in the kitchen that have reversed polarity and some wiring that needs to go into a junction box in the attic. I have the electrician come out, he finds actual 3 plugs in the kitchen to fix and fixes them, then puts wiring in attic in junction box.

Buyer's do an inspection 2 days ago (that's a rant for another thread) and tell me that other plugs are broken too. I told them we fixed the 2 that were identified in the inspection.

today I get the full list. He has others that have reversed polarity and open grounds. He claims that when they put the junction box in the must have "messed everything up". I get one of the plugs pulled that is said to have a open ground and it doesn't even have a grounding cable in it. I talk to my GC and he said what he thinks probably happened is that the house was originally wired with out them and some one later came and put 3 prong plugs in but never cabled the ground.

So my question is that this was found after inspection period. I think I can show that it was that way prior since it doesn't even have a ground cable.

If I push back they would probably walk and I suspect I'd have to fix it anyway for the next buyer. If it came down to it, I suspect they could get the mortgage company to pull the mortgage off the table so they could get ernest money back etc but that is just a guess.