‘Good riddance!’: Homesteader selling property tries to work with entitled buyers, but agreement falls through, potential owners still fraudulently use that address as their own

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Aug 19, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Everyone says that today's real estate market is not buyer friendly OR seller friendly. It kind of feels like you can't win either way… These homesteaders found this out the hard way. They were trying to sell their humble little farm land, but after some grief they decided to put that endeavor on hold. However, their real estate agent reached out after they made that decision to not sell with an offer from someone. They decided to accept the offer on conditions that it would be a painless process. They were assured it would be, but, lo and behold, it was not painless. The couple ended up being extremely entitled and also completely new to life outside of a city. They demanded city-like requirements that just aren't as plausible on a homestead. The homesteaders tried to work with the couple, compromising and communicating. But the couple kept proving themselves to be entitled and complicated. So, eventually, the transaction falls through. But then the homesteaders sees the couple fraudulently using their address! This became a whole other processes of alerting every place in town. See? Not a fun place for buyer or seller…

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  • "Real Estate Transaction 'gone south'"

    So, we were working to sell our house back in June of this year. We had the house on the market for a number of months but was also using it as an airbnb.
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  • When we came to the conclusion of pulling it off the market and relooking at our options, a buyer came out of the wood work.
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  • I outlined to my realtor that I wanted to pull it off the market, and only if the sale was uncomplicated would I consider it.
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  • While the contract wasn't completely without contingencies we made the decision to accept the offer.
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  • And then came nightmare after nightmare. The property is a homestead property. It has a barn, and while living there I had installed temporary fencing.
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  • We also have a tractor. The buyers were from a city. This was the first sign of uh oh these buyers are a touch entitled.
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  • When my realtor asked if in exchange for the tractor would they allow me to take our temporary fencing, the buyer came back and said they wanted both to stay.
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  • After talking with my realtor I said fine and moved on.
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  • Next, the buyers had a $20,000 inspection clause. Aka if they found issues that amounted to over $20,000 of repairs then we could negotiate or they could cancel their contract.
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  • They found there was $500-$1500 worth of issues. And decided to try and negotiate again.
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  • We said um, no. Thats not how this works, and moved on.
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  • Next was their house sale contingency. They were required to sell their house to purchase ours. They had 30 days to get their house under contract.
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  • Their first sale fell through so they reduced the price, received a second bid "which was as good as gold" and wouldn't you know, the second contract fell through.
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  • After verbally telling us they would reduce the sale, we agreed to stay in contract.
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  • Hindsight, they never reduced the price, and to this day their house is STILL NOT UNDER CONTRACT.
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  • In addition, we agreed we would consider an early occupancy agreement. Now mind you, early occupancy is NOT a rental agreement.
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  • Of course, there are always exceptions and, who knows, maybe you will have a very easy and happy real-estate experience! But know that you would be in the rarity. You lucky, dog! 

  • It is saying you will OCCUPY the home BEFORE you purchase it, but will plan to purchase it.
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  • They are incredibly risky on the sellers because you are betting on them to purchase your property.
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  • It's a similarly scenario of you going to a dealership and saying, I want to buy this car, but Id like to test drive it for 2 weeks before hand.
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  • Or really, I want to take ownership of this car, but will drive it for 2 weeks before I pay you the money to actually own it.
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  • To summarize, the buyers were not willing to have a contingency date on the early occupancy to sell their home.
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  • They wanted to use our house for the FORESEEABLE future. And they wanted to pay $600 LESS than our mortgage.
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  • We said no, but also understood the pickle they were in and said, pay our mortgage and lets escalate every 3 or 6 MONTH rent
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  • AND maintain the property (as if it was theirs) and their deposit would become non refundable if they decided they didn't or couldn't purchase our property.
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  • They came back and said no. So at the end of the day our purchase and sales agreement was cancelled (good riddance).
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  • Well, to our surprise, we started receiving mail with our previous buyers name on it... AND they used OUR address to post on OUR COMMUNITIES FORUM
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  • asking if there was anyone willing to rent to them because they were in a bind.
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  • So, after reporting the post, replying to the post with details of our experience, I decided it was probably best to notify the school district, post office AND dmv of the fraudulent use of our address.
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  • And now, we wait.
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