Rush, J.
This is the second appeal in protracted litigation over the breach of a real-estate sales contract. The first appeal established that Buyers breached the contract when they unreasonably demanded that Seller fix a minor electrical problem as a condition of purchase. In this second appeal, we granted transfer to consider whether the trial court acted within its discretion in calculating Seller’s damages. Both parties appealed the trial court’s findings regarding Seller’s efforts to mitigate her damages. Seller argues that her efforts were reasonable and justify a full award. Buyers argue Seller failed to mitigate her damages in two ways. The trial court disagreed with Buyers’ first argument but agreed with the second, and reduced Seller’s damages accordingly. We hold the trial court was within its discretion to reach this conclusion, and therefore affirm the award of damages and attorney fees.
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Thus, while continued performance may have been necessary for Fischer to mitigate her damages, Restatement (Second) of Contracts, § 350 cmt. g, the evidence does not compel the finding that she had to surrender to the terms of the Heymanns’ breach to do so. Rather, the trial court relied on the Court of Appeals’ holding in Fischer I that the Heymanns breached by making an unreasonable demand, which did not impose upon Fischer a duty to respond. 943 N.E.2d at 903. Fischer did not deviate from her contractual duties under the Agreement and remained “ready, willing, and able to perform,” Twin Lakes, 568 N.E.2d at 1080, under the original contract terms—just not under the additional terms the Heymanns demanded. We therefore affirm the trial court’s refusal to find that Fischer’s only reasonable option to mitigate her damages was to respond to the Heymanns’ demand.
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We affirm the trial court’s conclusion that Fischer may receive only $75,000 in compensatory damages—the difference between the Heymann deal ($315,000) and the Johnson offer ($240,000). Showalter, Inc. v. Smith, 629 N.E.2d 272, 275 (Ind. Ct. App. 1994), trans. denied, abrogated on other grounds. We also affirm its conclusion that Fischer is entitled to only $15,109.68 in carrying costs and maintenance fees she incurred as consequential damages from the time the Heymanns breached the Agreement until the date Fischer made her unreasonable counter-offer to Johnson. See Indianapolis City Mkt. Corp. v. MAV, Inc., 915 N.E.2d 1013, 1024 (Ind. Ct. App. 2009). The trial court therefore acted within its discretion when it awarded $90,109.68 for damages resulting from the Heymanns’ breach.
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Conclusion
The record supports the trial court’s findings and conclusions on Fischer’s duty to mitigate. The trial court acted within its discretion by finding that Fischer could have mitigated her damages by selling the condo in 2007 instead of waiting until 2011, and in refusing to find that her duty to mitigate required yielding to the Heymanns’ breach. The trial court also acted within its broad discretion in determining reasonable attorney fees and costs based on the results that Fischer achieved in this litigation. We therefore affirm the trial court’s award of $93,972.18.
Dickson, C.J., and David and Massa, JJ., concur.
Rucker, J., concurs in result.