I'm OP. I tried to describe it. The desk is in a corner of the exterior house. Water is coming from a gutter we think. It's fe 2nd story into basement but pooled in first floor. fun stuff. It really is extensive.

I did not notice it. But I'm from another area of the country where there are seller disclosures. We didn't spend much time in that room either. Just checked outlets and went on. We expected the house to be empty at final walk through but they asked to leave desk and we were exhausted and said yes. Sweet stuff. Other stuff was left but they only asked to leave desk.

I'm not someone to complain about small things but I feel conned.

Anonymous wrote:Dog urine is gross and I'm amazed that it didn't stink to high heavens. But that massive leak from (?) into the living room that leaked underneath that heavy desk through the floor and down through the ceiling with mold and everything else...no one noticed that? Not the inspector, not the buyer, not the realtor. If it was so inobvious to everyone else maybe the seller didn't know about it either? I'm trying to picture this and I just can't...not as described.

Yes, I'm having the same trouble --especially in the final walkthrough when the house should have been empty but for the desk. Also wondering where the water was coming from, weird for water to show up on first floor floor but not on walls or ceiling. Hopefully OP will update.

Anonymous wrote:Inspectors are crooks.

I agree. Ours SUCKED. We were FTHB; lesson learned. The second time around we followed the inspector's every move and had my BIL, who is a master electrician and carpenter who works on houses both old and new, follow the guy too. I basically told the guy you don't like it we go with another inspector.

Dog urine is gross and I'm amazed that it didn't stink to high heavens. But that massive leak from (?) into the living room that leaked underneath that heavy desk through the floor and down through the ceiling with mold and everything else...no one noticed that? Not the inspector, not the buyer, not the realtor. If it was so inobvious to everyone else maybe the seller didn't know about it either? I'm trying to picture this and I just can't...not as described.

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Anonymous wrote:Were you present when the inspection was done? I'm having a hard time grasping how a group of adults who toured a house together to inspect, missed such a glaring problem. I would follow up with the inspector and your agent.

It was underneath furniture and wasn't noticeable in the basement (which was a disaster at the time with boxes).

Lesson learned I guess, move seller's furniture and don't allow them to abandon things when they move. Expensive lesson.

Inspector is actually a really good inspector, the sellers are just malicious.

I doubt it. Many of them seem "really good" and they're really not.

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Anonymous wrote:My first thought/phone call would have been to my real estate agent, to see what advice they had. Unless OP is one of the people on here who claim that they don't need one.

Oh you, you with your cute little agenda. No one's said anything bad about realtors on this thread so everything's ok! It will be ok.

This was adorable. I'm sure the agent would scramble to drop their active listings and sales and rush to unwind or refund a closed sale from which is about to get his payday.

LOL, when I used a regular agent about 10 years a go, After closing I noticed a piece of carpet was a little stained and pulled it up. I continued to pull all the carpet up in the house and found that the carpets were all stained with dog urine. I called my agent and asked him if we had recourse because the carpets were ruined, he said no. I was like dude fuck you.

I think dog urine is a little different than 10k worth of rotten subflooring, walls and mold.

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Anonymous wrote:My first thought/phone call would have been to my real estate agent, to see what advice they had. Unless OP is one of the people on here who claim that they don't need one.

Oh you, you with your cute little agenda. No one's said anything bad about realtors on this thread so everything's ok! It will be ok.

This was adorable. I'm sure the agent would scramble to drop their active listings and sales and rush to unwind or refund a closed sale from which is about to get his payday.

LOL, when I used a regular agent about 10 years a go, After closing I noticed a piece of carpet was a little stained and pulled it up. I continued to pull all the carpet up in the house and found that the carpets were all stained with dog urine. I called my agent and asked him if we had recourse because the carpets were ruined, he said no. I was like dude fuck you.

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Anonymous wrote:My first thought/phone call would have been to my real estate agent, to see what advice they had. Unless OP is one of the people on here who claim that they don't need one.

Oh you, you with your cute little agenda. No one's said anything bad about realtors on this thread so everything's ok! It will be ok.

This was adorable. I'm sure the agent would scramble to drop their active listings and sales and rush to unwind or refund a closed sale from which is about to get his payday.

And, BTW, this does count as someone saying something bad about realtors, but this is the first posting. And I don't doubt that Redfin would be equally useless, but at least you would have more money in your pocket to hire what you sadly need: an attorney.

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Anonymous wrote:My first thought/phone call would have been to my real estate agent, to see what advice they had. Unless OP is one of the people on here who claim that they don't need one.

Oh you, you with your cute little agenda. No one's said anything bad about realtors on this thread so everything's ok! It will be ok.

This was adorable. I'm sure the agent would scramble to drop their active listings and sales and rush to unwind or refund a closed sale from which is about to get his payday.

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, that sucks OP. the sellers sound like a piece of work. Good luck.

That being said. Is there any industry with such low accountability as hone inspection? Has anyone ever successfully gotten an inspector to take responsibility for things they missed? Isnt this what they have insurance for? Ours missed a couple big things and basically shrugged their shoulders when we called them on it.

Yes, in other states it's different. In our previous home in Florida when we moved in the AC was broken. The inspector's company bought us a brand new one.

Ugh, that sucks OP. the sellers sound like a piece of work. Good luck.

That being said. Is there any industry with such low accountability as hone inspection? Has anyone ever successfully gotten an inspector to take responsibility for things they missed? Isnt this what they have insurance for? Ours missed a couple big things and basically shrugged their shoulders when we called them on it.

I'm sorry, OP. Not nearly as devastating but when we moved into our home, there was (and still is) a huge orange paint stain the sellers hid underneath a dog kennel when we looked at the home. Oh well.

hopefully karma will come back and bite those sellers in the butt. Sorry OP

OP, you should call your agent and then call an attorney, who will advise you on how to document everything. You should then get some estimates on the work and decide if the cost of litigation is greater than the cost of repair.

If the seller willfully hid this damage, I believe you have recourse. That's just shameful that someone would do that.

Inspectors are crooks.