Advice needed for house sale

[Movinbaby]

Hi
We sold our house some months back and are still waiting to complete.

Our buyer had a survey and we have never been made aware of any issues. She is starting to request some things and I am not sure if they are right??

She wanted someone to come to measure up for carpets, despite us not having a completion date and during Covid. She then wanted and electrician to come to conduct a 4 hour check. I did agree but then we got put into Tier 4 lockdown and I was really worried about someone coming into our home when we are all working from Home at the moment. She also wanted me to pay for this.

Now she is saying that I told her we had a guarantee for our flat roof which is 5 years old. I was very honest with her and told her that I couldn't get a guarantee so I have never mislead anyone. She wants me to call around for quotes to have the roof replaced. She also keeps telling our estate agents that she may renegotiate the price she offered despite the fact that property prices have increased by 14% since we accepted her offer.

I don't know what to do or whether I am legally abliged to do as she wants. I am started to feel like she is trying it on so she can offer less.

Any advice is appreciated xx

Thanks everyone. Ammary- I am really feeling the pressure and I am struggling with everything at the moment. It's a tough time for us all and trying to move home is making it too much at the moment. I don't like the house I live in now and moving is right for us. Problem is, I have waited so long and feel so down that I am looking at the new house and thinking "is it all its cracked up to be". I am starting to talk myself out of it. If I got the house I would be excited but at this stressful moment I can't say I love it if I am honest. There is nothing else out there and I am getting most of what I want in this new house. I think I already know what is going to happen. This new house isn't my dream house but it's what I can afford, in the area I want. I think I need to be prepared to lose it and start again.

I would pull out and get it back on the market at an increased price. She's a time waster.

I'd pull out to, there's nothing to stop her coming back day if completion and demand another discount.

Thanks everyone. I am expecting another call from the EA today as he took a call from our buyer last night. All this waiting is making me a nervous wreck. We will make a decision based on that call. In the meantime I am looking at houses for sale.......

She’s yanking your chain for sure.

Just wanted to thank everyone for their advice on this and give an update. We told the EA to take our house off the market. Our buyer was refusing to budge from 8k. We have lost the house we were buying so are back to square 1, where we were a year ago. Gutted doesn't even cut it but life goes on, it's just a house. Thanks again 🥰

Tbh, I know this ship has sailed but I would move out into rented instead of losing a sale due to onward purchase. She's lost nearly a year to this too.

Moving out into rented solves nothing. It just means I have to pay rent and a mortgage. Its not the onward sale that's the issue, it's that I now have no buyer.

I know, I don't mean now. I mean that way back when I would have held the sale together by moving out instead of leaving your buyer hanging on for nearly a year. What proportion of the value is £8k?

@indecentfeminist your right. It would have been a better option but there has been movement....our vendor still wants us to buy and is willing to wait. 8k was below the price we marketed it for. It was in for 160k and she bid 166k. It might just work after all but we shall see.