Actually, Art, we had the house inspected and the sellers did, indeed, either pay for or share the cost of several things. The things I mention are cans of worms that have been found as we had other things done.

Code? Code? This is Idaho, fer crissakes! We don't need no steenkin' code! (Actually, building code enforcement is pretty damned new in this neck of the woods and it wouldn't exist at all if the state didn't insist. The stuff we're having done is correcting years and years of "Joe Homeowner" work -- in Idaho, a property owner can do pretty much anything they want to their property without the work having to meet Code, and in the past you can simply remove the words "pretty much". It still doesn't need to be inspected after the work is done.)

The sellers tried to tell us that the property was being sold "as is" and take it or leave it. Odd how, when we let it be known that we were going to walk away, they came around to our way of thinking and shared costs or had something repaired themselves.