Muir v. Merano

This is an action brought under the Residential Real Property Disclosure Act (the Act) (765 ILCS 77/1 et seq. (West 2006)) to recover a $10,000 earnest money deposit paid by the plaintiffs, Curt Muir and Valorie Muir, to the defendant, Scott Merano, on a contract to purchase a house. “The purpose of the *** Act is to provide prospective [home] buyers with information about material defects [in the home] known to the seller ***.” Coughlin v. Gustafson, 332 Ill. App. 3d 406, 413 (2002). “A prospective buyer may choose to rely on this information in deciding whether and on what terms to purchase…