Anyone dealt with unreasonable sellers that won’t budge?

The home inspection reported the underlayment of the tile roof is 23yrs old, the AC is 23yrs old. Water heater is in bad shape. 3 big ticket items. All need to be replaced. Not to mention, a broken sliding door & other minor repairs needed.

(**edit: to be clear. Roof guy said underlayment is bad and roof will leak soon. AC is in bad shape, as is the water heater, which has lots of rust**)

Nothing has been repaired or replaced since the home was built. All is original to the home. Seller only willing to invest $15k to replace water heater & AC himself (he wanted to put in the cheapest and least efficient units). He has not lifted a finger to repair or replace anything in the 10yrs that he’s lived there. He won’t budge.

We walked away and he’s now relisted it at full value, despite all the issues. It’s a money pit. Such a shame as we love this home, but we’re unwilling to pay $45k+ for all the repairs. we were asking him for $34k credit, to do the 3 big ticket items that are really mandatory for a home. We even got quotes. Told him he could pay the bare minimum, so he would pay for the cheapest units and we would make up the difference in cost needed to get more efficient units.

What we know is he was a tenant at the home and did a lease to buy, so this is new to him and in my opinion he has unrealistic expectations.

We were buying this to use as a vacation property. It’s a bad investment if we’re to do all the repairs ourselves.

Is this typical of most sellers? Or we’re just unlucky?

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