Floor plan doesn't match condo = compensation? - Page 2

???????? What are you guys talking about? The purchase price of a condominium is based, in large part, on square footage. Square footage, in turn, is determined in large measure by floor plans provided prior to sale. Where actual square footage is not commensurate with promised square footage, common sense dictates that liability is at issue. Promise not fulfilled. Now, contractual provisions in a Purchase and Sale Agreement as well as the existence of governing statutes may or may not affect the likelihood of success at trial - (one member, for example, has already pointed out a permissible 3% variance in his state) - but it is certainly worth looking into the matter. Hence my very general inquiry. If you were to purchase a property and learn than you had less frontage or square footage or whatever than was promised to you, you'd be curious and slightly pissed too. Idiots.

The likelihood of success at trial is what ultimately determines the heft of your bargaining power during negotiation. Even if it the matter is "dinky", the other side will either hear you or not based on how effectively you can convince them that you would succeed if you took them to court. Remember that, if they were to lose, they'd be on the hook for damages as well as paying a large part of your costs. Much of the law is about settling. You clearly haven't had occasion to internalize this lesson. That's a good thing. Anyways...it's a small deal, yes, but you don't know the full context and I don't take well to being pushed around by anyone. Especially corporations that sup on my money.