What are our options? Issues 1 month after closing

[Anonymous]

OMG, there won't be any lawsuit. Move on. This isn't even that big of a deal.

[Anonymous]

You can file a suit for the cost of the new damage. They may go 1/2 of the cost if they are decent people to avoid further stress.

Op, I know how you feel. We moved to Seattle 25 years ago, within two months, the sewage leaked all over the basement! It was an older home 1926. We just sucked up and paid for a new pipe around $10K.

If I am in your situation now, I would work with a lawyer!

[Anonymous]

Op, check to see if your home is under the flood zone.

https://msc.fema.gov/portal/search

[Anonymous]

Plan A. Go the cheap and easy route, just find a good contractor to fix the drainage issue.

Plan B. Give 2 or 3x that amount of money to a lawyer to end up right back where you started 2 years from now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you everyone for posts. We decided to get a structural engineer to make sure the foundation is okay. If it is we will call an HVAC contractor to seal the ducts under the slab. And we will also look into the grading by the side that flooded.

This stinks. It will likely cost $$$.

Now if the engineer finds a hidden foundation issue that's going to cost a lot to fix, what would we do?

You pay for it. It is your house now. This is a risk of home ownership.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The seller may have lied and his more extensive problems. But they were smart in disclosing "something". They covered themselves so any litigation will cost you money. This why these disclosure forms are frankly useless. I wish people just ignore anything the seller says. It's critical for prospective buyer to have separate inspections for electric, foundation, and plumbing.

I know someone who supposedly bought a house and few days later ended up finding a $250k foundation damage. He tried to sue the seller but was not successful.

Hey, moron, OP said they had the place inspected and "confirmed the fixes." They DID "ignore" the seller. So what the hell are you talking about?

It isn't clear they had an independent inspector. People often just let their agent set that up, who obviously doesn't want to do anything to kill the sale.

This is paranoid bullshit. A buyer's agent isn't going to recommend a shitty or unscrupulous inspector just to not "kill the sale."

An inspector that regularly kills sales is going to stop getting referrals. Come on. You know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can file a suit for the cost of the new damage. They may go 1/2 of the cost if they are decent people to avoid further stress.

Op, I know how you feel. We moved to Seattle 25 years ago, within two months, the sewage leaked all over the basement! It was an older home 1926. We just sucked up and paid for a new pipe around $10K.

If I am in your situation now, I would work with a lawyer!

This is complete nonsense. From what Op has described, none of this is the seller's responsibility, legally or morally. You are suggesting that the OP shake down the sellers and cause them unwarranted stress in order shoulder part of the cost of repairs.

As far as decent people do, where does that put you?

[Anonymous]

You are SOL if you think the seller will pay for this.

[Anonymous]

Consider yourself lucky that they actually disclosed on the form that they had some water issues. The house we bought the seller put unknown for everything. We knew the house had issues, but we really just wanted the location and we found a cheap house that we could dump money into. We lucked out. But it could have been a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

OP, keep in mind that most of the people on this board (including me) are owners, and have sold houses on multiple occasions, so their perspective that you can't and shouldn't go after the seller is from that viewpoint. Unfortunately, there are many dishonest sellers and they seem to have a mistaken belief that their liability ends once they hand over the keys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you everyone for posts. We decided to get a structural engineer to make sure the foundation is okay. If it is we will call an HVAC contractor to seal the ducts under the slab. And we will also look into the grading by the side that flooded.

This stinks. It will likely cost $$$.

Now if the engineer finds a hidden foundation issue that's going to cost a lot to fix, what would we do?

You should call your insurance company and file a claim.

[Anonymous]

It's your house now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you everyone for posts. We decided to get a structural engineer to make sure the foundation is okay. If it is we will call an HVAC contractor to seal the ducts under the slab. And we will also look into the grading by the side that flooded.

This stinks. It will likely cost $$$.

Now if the engineer finds a hidden foundation issue that's going to cost a lot to fix, what would we do?

The insurance company will likely deny the claim. And then they will drop them.


You should call your insurance company and file a claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's your house now.

You people don't really how silly you sound. If you bought a $1500 iphone and it stopped working on day one, would you say, oh well "it's my iphone now" so I have no recourse? Truly astounding idiocy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's your house now.

You people don't really how silly you sound. If you bought a $1500 iphone and it stopped working on day one, would you say, oh well "it's my iphone now" so I have no recourse? Truly astounding idiocy.

Did you inspect the phone before buying it? And did you buy it without a warranty?

It sounds like you've never bought anything second-hand before.