What’s the worst/most expensive thing you’ve discovered was wrong after closing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not me but a neighbor on Long Island when I lived there bought a home in 2015 and got a notice in 2018 it needs to be demolished or raised 8 feet in the air.

Turns out in Sandy in 2012 home was considered over 50 percent damaged in Superstorm Sandy and lost its CO. However, town backlogged due to thousands of damaged homes and paper form filled out by inspectors while power out in Sandy not keypunched till 2018 which got him the letter.

Happened to like a dozen people my old town.

Is this a claim against title insurance? Fascinating

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not me but a neighbor on Long Island when I lived there bought a home in 2015 and got a notice in 2018 it needs to be demolished or raised 8 feet in the air.

Turns out in Sandy in 2012 home was considered over 50 percent damaged in Superstorm Sandy and lost its CO. However, town backlogged due to thousands of damaged homes and paper form filled out by inspectors while power out in Sandy not keypunched till 2018 which got him the letter.

Happened to like a dozen people my old town.

I would think this would have to be a disclosure!!! That's terrible. The people who sold are abhorrent.

The people who sold had had no clue. What happened inspectors when power out and homes unoccupied based on exterior review and water lines labeled homes all of them. The ones called “substantially damaged” a fema term home over 50 percent damaged have to be raised or torn down. These paper forms were not key punched for a few years. Was not till summer 2019 they actually finished then all.
It was Town of Hempstead on Long Island.
Read article below pretty scary if you ever buy a home in a flood zone.

https://www.liherald.com/stories/over-five-years-after-hurricane-sandy-townof-hempstead-homeowners-are-told-they-must-elevate,104307#:~:text=Out%20of%20the%2065%2C000%20town,in%202018%2C%20according%20to%20Furst.

[Anonymous]

There is a big ass crack in my ceiling. It had been painted . Then slowly over a year bamm.
I hate my realtor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a big ass crack in my ceiling. It had been painted . Then slowly over a year bamm.
I hate my realtor

I also have a ceiling crack that has been painted that is ready to reopen I'm sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Failed septic. House was listed as being on public sewer when it wasn’t. Our realtor didn’t say a thing about the neighborhood being on septic or that I should consider doing a drain line inspection. The home owner moved out of the home before listing it and prior to that pulled permits but never did the work on the septic or closed out the permits. It was 25k to fix the septic that began leaking in the yard a week after moving in. The neighbors knew and complained when the previously home owner owned the house and thought they had it fixed. They didn’t- just sold it on to someone else.

Septic has to be disclosed. Then you have a separate septic inspection. We had a new system put in as part of our closing package. You and both realtors failed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a big ass crack in my ceiling. It had been painted . Then slowly over a year bamm.
I hate my realtor

I also have a ceiling crack that has been painted that is ready to reopen I'm sure.

Most cracks aren’t a big deal. At least in walls idk about ceilings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a big ass crack in my ceiling. It had been painted . Then slowly over a year bamm.
I hate my realtor

I also have a ceiling crack that has been painted that is ready to reopen I'm sure.

Most cracks aren’t a big deal. At least in walls idk about ceilings.

Congratulations on your Internet Structural Engineering degree!

[Anonymous]

Did some of you not even do an information-only inspection? Maybe used the inspector recommended by your realtor?

Don’t ever do either of those things btw