During the home inspection. Any areas the inspector found to have problems in and should be corrected falls on the seller to pay for the correction to the house. Paying to fix the house should fall on the seller at a 100%. If the owner doesnt want to pay to fix the house he would have to disclosed on the seller residential real estate sales disclosure sheet what damage was found. So with you or the next offer the same problem still existed. But in my personally opinion buyers should never have to pay to fix the house they intend on purchasing unless buying a bank repo or a house that states sales as it. - Fri Feb 22 2008, 23:40