Well, it seems the sellers and their representatives have discovered this blog.  The other day our agent forwarded us the following e-mail:

From: Perry Henderson Real Estate – Go Green and Live Well
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:39 AM
To: Sheri Mitchel
Cc: John Cochran
Subject: http://www.605peacock.com/

Sheri,

I’ve been notified that this blog is advertising the experience of the buyer for Unit C. I know that people get angry when they don’t get everything they want, but this is way over the top and just not an accurate representation of what happened…

Please have them one of the following:
1. Let the Seller publish his side of the story
2. Remove it altogether.
3. At a minimum, remove any factual errors.

Are you able to help me with this?
Perry

I told Sheri that everything in the blog was 100% backed by e-mail exchanges with the seller.  I asked her to have them contact me directly if they had an issue w/ the blog as it was not fair to involve her in this.  I put this blog up because I was appalled that the seller would try to steal our earnest money given that we were well within the option period.  In addition, I had been amazed by the events that happened during he process and felt like it was a micocosmic reflection of the entire real estate bubble.  It seemed to me that the agent and the seller were still operating under an extreme bubble mantality and I thought it would be interesting to document it.

That said, they did get in touch with me sending the following e-mail:

On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Perry Henderson Real Estate – Go Green and Live Well wrote:

I’m not getting caught up in this nor trying to be combative but here’s where the seller is coming from. If we need to proceed any further, frankly I think it’ll be totally creepy. Do the honorable thing and move on.  If you really need examples, here are the ones I’ve been told to inform you about.

Example #1:
The buyer could have said that they found a laundry list of repair items in the inspection. What it doesn’t say it that that the seller paid for completed the repairs as soon as humanly possible.

Example #2:
The seller requested meditation, to sit in front of the the buyer to discuss the release of EM and the concerns. The blog version doesn’t reflect this.

Example #3:
The comment system is not on, wasn’t on ever, etc…  see screen print<Outlook.jpg

I informed him in the interest of full discolsure I’d be glad to post his criticisms.  Obviously #3 is just plain wrong.  If you click on the post title or the word “comments” you can comment on any post.  This is an open blog.  Regarding Example #1 and Example #2, I will post separate entries addressing each one from my point of view.