We just closed on a home for $475K that we bought from a seller who is also a realtor and lawyer. The following day we received an email from the original owners. They said they built the house in 1996 and lived in it for 26 years before it got foreclosed in 2022 and the seller bought it in an auction. They’ve apparently been in contact with the seller to buy it back but haven’t been able to come up with the money. They somehow came up with 505K in cash the day after we closed and want to buy it from us. We ignore them and don’t respond. A day later we get a letter in the mail at our current home AND the new home with an offer to buy the house. We email them back saying we are not interested in selling and to stop contacting us. They responded and said they can increase their offer to 525K as this home is extremely sentimental to them. And if we can’t work out a deal, they are asking to at least pick up their piano.
I’m a bit creeped out. How did they get our email addresses and current home address? I understand the letter to the new home since they used to live there but I just feel very uneasy about this whole situation. It’s been a week since we bought the new place but we haven’t moved in yet as we’re planning to renovate. We don’t want to sell the new house, it was extremely hard to find something like this and we love the layout. And $525K isn’t going to get us a significantly better house than this.
We don’t want the piano, but we don’t want them coming into our house to pick it up either. How should we go about this? I was thinking of telling them to arrange a pickup through a moving company so that we don’t have to interact with them but the moving company can come and grab the piano… or should we just remove the piano on our own… it’s super heavy.
Has anyone experienced a similar situation?
Edit: Thank you everyone for your input! The piano doesn’t have any money, gold, jewels or drugs lol. I’m not sure what type of piano it is but it’s very antique looking. They did not take the piano when the home was foreclosed because they thought they would be able to buy the home back from the seller. We will arrange for a piano mover to give them the piano back at their expense. We don’t want it and would rather have an insured company come remove it then try to sell it on FB market place or something.
Can confirm these owners are the original owners. They are in the title report and some online search shows this address being associated with their names.
The seller said these owners have been trying to buy the house back from him for the last two years (basically ever since their home was foreclosed) but have not been able to come up with the funds.
We’re not going to give them a ‘make us move’ price. We love the house and already started planning our renovation projects. Also, this market is crazy and we don’t want to go through the stress of finding another house.
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