Trying to back out of deal with earnest money

[Charlotte Wilson]

We put in an offer a few weeks ago for a property in Kenosha, Wisconsin that has turned out to need a lot of work and the sellers aren’t in agreement to fix majority of it. Long story short, the electrical is a big issue. we sent an addendum and they responded with fixing some of electrical but not in a way that made sense, so we denied it. The NEXT day, they had an electrician work on the house performing those tasks that we didn’t agree to. Would this be a way to back out of our contract to get our earnest money back? My real estate agent is saying no but when I look online, it states otherwise and I have no further knowledge to back it up. Any advice is appreciated.

[Ken M.]

Quote from @Charlotte Wilson:

We put in an offer a few weeks ago for a property in Kenosha, Wisconsin that has turned out to need a lot of work and the sellers aren’t in agreement to fix majority of it. Long story short, the electrical is a big issue. we sent an addendum and they responded with fixing some of electrical but not in a way that made sense, so we denied it. The NEXT day, they had an electrician work on the house performing those tasks that we didn’t agree to. Would this be a way to back out of our contract to get our earnest money back? My real estate agent is saying no but when I look online, it states otherwise and I have no further knowledge to back it up. Any advice is appreciated.

Was the work agreed to by both parties in writing?