If there is a way to back out using the inspection provision in the contract, your closing attorney should be addressing your concerns through that provision. In addition or instead, your attorney can try to use the failure of the sellers to have accepted the offer while it was open. The issue I see is, if I were representing the sellers, I would suggest that your actions in moving forward with the inspection ratified the contract (in other words, you can't have it both ways, acting on the contract, but then suggesting that a contract was never formed). I am not saying how that would turn out considering the specifics of your transaction. You would end up getting into arguments that are far too involved to address within the scope of a website like this.

Have you missed the deadlines on the inspection provisions? It seems to me with the dates you mention that you should be able to work with the inspection terms.

If there is a way to back out using the inspection provision in the contract, your closing attorney should be addressing your concerns through that provision. In addition or instead, your attorney can try to use the failure of the sellers to have accepted the offer while it was open. The issue I see is, if I were representing the sellers, I would suggest that your actions in moving forward with the inspection ratified the contract (in other words, you can't have it both ways, acting on the contract, but then suggesting that a contract was never formed). I am not saying how that would turn out considering the specifics of your transaction. You would end up getting into arguments that are far too involved to address within the scope of a website like this.

Have you missed the deadlines on the inspection provisions? It seems to me with the dates you mention that you should be able to work with the inspection terms.