求助,卖家不肯签release earnest money

我买房付了earnest money,然后在home insepction contingency period里面发现有房顶漏水等问题而且卖家承认之前漏过水但没有写在disclosure里面，卖家都不肯修给了很少的钱于是我们达不成agreement,我就在这个period根据合同提出取消合同并要求返回earnest money.但卖家迟迟不肯签cancellation and earnest money letter. earnest money在我的closing attorney的escrow account里，律师说需要卖家签字他才能release.现在卖家都已经找到新买家好像已经又under contract.但还没有签cancellation and earnest money letter。 我想求助下，这种情况我该怎么办，真心谢谢大家！

A seller has to provide "marketable title" to a buyer. 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/marketable_title#:~:text=Title%20that%20is%20free%20from,the%20date%20of%20the%20closing.

"Title that is free from reasonable doubt or any sort of threat of litigation. An implied promise in a contract when a seller is selling land to a buyer is that the seller will deliver marketable title to the buyer at the date of the closing."

Now your seller has a new buyer, I assume they want to close as scheduled.  They cannot close as scheduled if you file a lawsuit alleging home purchase contract dispute because now the title is no longer "marketable".  

Find a litigation lawyer and pay him to write seller a letter.  It usually works. 

房子有纠纷的话不能close吧。title不clean

太谢谢!希望能有办法放到title上阻止卖家卖给新买家。那我closing attorney是real estate lawyer但好像只做closing,是有专门打这种官司的律师是吗？

先起诉了再说

closing attroney is doing tranasction, not litigation.  找一个真正打官司的律师，real estate litigation attorney, 让他写一个cease and detest letter，告诉他们如果一周内不release escrow，会马上起诉，并且警告一旦起诉他们的新买卖就会黄。

然后静等一周。对方也会去咨询律师，需要给他们一点时间。最后他们反复思考问东问西，估计会退的。否则奉陪到底。

不过不知道找这个律师会要付多少retainer。招招看吧。

也许你们当地法律不一样，我们这里，应该是卖家更加着急，买家如果不签release,对方没有办法卖房子的。作为卖家，最着急的是早点卖掉，他如果敢扣押金，对方就不签release, 耗着，看谁耗得起。买家最多推迟一些时间，卖家却错过season. 

比如说这个新交易又黄了，他们多付了两个月的利息。等第三个交易结束后，他们 可能再回来和楼主说，你不能拿全款，你需要陪我两个月利息。

你以为你这点钱人家哈佛出身的律师会看得上！？

所以我不知道你有什么其他办法。