Wealthy parents who offer to buy their kid a house and then develop opinions about the house after the contracts are signed are a very specific kind of generous that nobody actually wants
If you have ever wondered what it looks like when a family with so much money they «don’t know what to do with it» finally figures out what to do with it, the answer, it turns out, is dangle a $600k dream home in front of their son, tell him to sign the contracts, watch him put down earnest money, and then call to mention that actually they have some concerns, and also $2,000 a month sounds right, and come to think of it they are not sure they even like the house, which they chose not to see before instructing him to make a legally binding offer on it.