Help with Legal Questions about Selling Your Home

Questioner

We recently sold our house. The deed of delivery and mortgage signed at the notary with the buyers. In the evening, a few hours after signing at the notary, our real estate agent called to say that the screen doors were missing. We were not aware of this, we suspect that the screen doors were stolen during DIY activities. An annoying situation. After all, the screen doors are on the list of items. The buyers now want us to compensate the 15-year-old screen doors at the new price. But are they within their rights and should they not have indicated this during the last inspection? And are we as buyers obliged to compensate at the new price? I look forward to hearing from you and thank you in advance.

Lawyer

No, you have to pay the current value, but that is almost 0, no value anymore. If there is demonstrable theft, you could still get the insurer involved, but they also pay out almost nothing in that case. A flower is more obvious.