No, that is not typical, especially when the home is vacant. More often than not, sellers do allow buyers to complete negotiated repair work during escrow, and on a flip the property is usually vacant, which removes most of the practical objections. Once the deal is moving forward, there is little reason to say no. Where we can see a seller hesitating: - An occupied home. Contractors coming through genuinely disrupts the people still living there. - Staging. If there is staging furniture that cannot easily be moved, a seller might push back on work happening around it. Once contingencies are removed and the seller knows the sale is going through, we generally see no good reason to refuse access for agreed-upon repairs on a vacant home, and in our experience sellers usually accommodate it. If yours will not, ask directly why, because the credit plus getting the work done before closing is often exactly what makes the deal work for you as the buyer.