My co-worker just told me that tomorrow she is suppose to close at 10 am but had a walk through today and there were four things not fixed yet that the current owner of the house was suppose to fix. She paid 4k in earnest money for the house and the current owner had 8 weeks to get this done. She was told she has three options. 1) delay closing 2) have her pay something like $200.00 for the rest of the repairs at closing or 3) after closing pay for someone to fix the problems and send her the bill

Option 1 isn't a good option because my co-worker lives in an apartment and the lease is up at the end of October. She doesn't want to risk that the current owner wont fix the problems and delay the closing further. Option 2 is risky because what if the problems cost more than the agreed amount paid? and option 3 maybe an option however isn't there a chance that the current owner doesn't pay the bill and my co-worker is stuck with it still?

Can anyone offer any advice on what my co-worker should do? Is there any way she can get her earnest money back?

Also we live in Texas

Thanks!