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totally different home,” he said.

The repair issue had sprung up so long ago, that paperwork was seemingly lost, though eventually tracked down, Clements said, adding, “We ended up changing lenders and closing the deal 12 days later.”

It wasn’t so much the one “far-fetched requirement,” but all of them together that made the process difficult, he said.

“When it came down to satisfying 19 conditions, we couldn’t get them all,” Clements said. “The challenge today is the amount of conditions, and they are conditions that appear to be, at best, arms-length from the transaction. It’s been a trend.”

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