Dublin studio: as-is offer, inspection contingency and right to walk

So the three outcomes remain valid: proceed, propose one evidence-based change, or withdraw if entitled. The investigation is there to choose among them, not to guarantee a discount.
 
I’d avoid the phrase “repair credit” if nobody has established a repair. Call it a proposed price response to identified risk, and describe the evidence. Otherwise the terminology itself may overstate what is known.
 
For a shared or local supply issue, responsibility may be as important as technical cause. Ask who can authorise work, who might pay and what evidence exists, but let the Irish solicitor frame those enquiries.
 
One more tolerance question: how long could you live with the situation if resolution were delayed? A financially affordable problem can still make a small studio impractical day to day.
 
And how long do you plan to own it? No need to disclose that to the seller, but a short expected holding period makes unresolved resale questions more significant to your own decision.
 
Those are useful personal considerations, but they should not be mixed into a legal notice. Tell the solicitor your chosen outcome and basis; keep lifestyle calculations in your private decision process.
 
Has the original poster received the exact completed comparables yet? If not, I would not delay the contractual response waiting for them. They refine pricing but do not replace deadline protection.
 
Coming back to this later, the cleanest lesson is that “as-is” does not answer every question. The operative documents determine rights; evidence determines value; tolerance determines whether exercising a right is worthwhile.
 
For anyone in the same position, take screenshots or verbal recollections out of the centre of the analysis. Work from the actual accepted wording and written communications held by your solicitor.
 
Then identify the trigger precisely. Was it an inspector’s observed defect, an unanswered question, a local report, or financing feedback? Different triggers require different evidence before changing the offer.
 
If it is only an unverified local concern, a large credit request is premature. If it is documented and material to this studio, insisting that the original price assumed otherwise is much more coherent.
 
Either way, the seller’s “spirit” argument is negotiation language. The legal significance, if any, must come from the Irish transaction documents and circumstances, assessed by the buyer’s solicitor.
 
A useful closing question for the solicitor is: “If we do nothing before the stated date, what changes?” That exposes the cost of inaction and often makes the next step obvious.
 
Mila, if you are still following, what did the clause and deadline actually say, and did the seller eventually provide information about the supply problem? An outcome would help distinguish the legal wording from the negotiation noise.
 
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