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Home Sweet Home: 8 Tips on Buying a Bank Owned Property
4) Get a home inspection. This is a must for any property you buy. The cost of the inspection is nothing compared to to the problems you could have if things are not checked out. Don’t save a few dollars only to spend thousands later. …  read more…

Home Inspection Blog: Tax credit is nearing the end
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Setting Up Your Success Team Of Real Estate Professionals.
You’ve heard the saying “It’s not what you know, but who you know” right? Sure you have and in so many ways this saying is true. If I look at my company today and compare it to what it was…  read more…

Home Inspection On Plumbing Systems
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Open Question: Homeowners rights - do we have any?
We live in Ontario Canada and purchased our very first house this past February. The house is older but we did pay to have a home inspector come to inspect the property - it was given a good report so we of course purchased the home. That is when all hell broke loose.

The roof leaked - we did not know the roof leaked because it took a long time to get through the 3! ceilings - yes, the ceiling we saw was actually a built ceiling over an existing ceiling … and that was built over the original ceiling … all in all, the leak caused 3 ceilings to collapse and ALOT of MOLD was found … the entire front entranceway of our house had to be (and still is) gutted because of the mold. We had to replace the roof at our cost. The sunporch on the front of the house is pulling away from the main house - you can notice it because the windows do not open and close properly and the front door is tight to open and close … when you look at the jams you can see its defiantly on an angle and now we are unable to use ANY water in our house because the main pipe leading from the house is PLUGGED and water has backed up into our basement from the floor drain.

We are now in the process of calling a plumber with a camera to figure out what the hell is blocking the drain and a contractor to look at the sunporch and see if we can save it. How did the homeinspector miss all this ?!?!

Do we have ANY rights at all to persue legal action against the previous homeowner or the home inspector?????? Is there anytype of “warranty” that comes along with buying a house??? This is rediculus! - we are a young couple who saved long and hard to buy this house and its been nothing but a money pit!!!

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Open Question: Real Estate Question: Who pays for the faulty sewer in this purchase of a used condo?
Condo seller puts his 30 year old condo on the market through a real estate broker as the Listing Agent. Seller moves across country entrusting the management of this property and sale to this real estate agent. One year passes in a down real estate market with no buyers appearing during which time roots from a large tree on the property MAY have grown into the plumbing system.

Buyer finally materializes via their own real estate agent bringing them the property which the buyer likes. Home inspector issues a report prior to purchase with no mention of any plumbing or sewer problems. Buyer moves in and 4 days later, the downstairs bathroom backs up and floods the condo with sewer water and since then, has been non-functional.

Buyer seeks recourse against someone. Who in this situation would be liable for damages or reimbursement for plumbing repairs needed?

Note the purchase of the property was 21 months ago but under 2 years (statue of limitations?).

1. The Seller of the Condo
2. The Seller’s Real Estate Agent (the Listing Agent)
3. The Buyer’s Real Estate Agent
4. The Home Inspector who inspected the property but didn’t catch the faulty plumbing which flushed at least once but backed up later after subsequent flushes.
5. The HOA / Condominium Association with a Treasury to pay for the “general common elements” of the condominium project.
Note 1: The state of jurisdiction is TEXAS.

Note 2: Please quote your references or basis for your answer as this is not seeking guesses but rather informed feedback from anyone who would be in the know on this subject (i.e. real estate professionals, attorneys, buyers/sellers with similar experience, etc.).
Note 3: [posted AFTER Responder Special 11 suggested the HOA was responsible]. You quoted from a GENERAL text on HOAs but in this specific HOA, the Bylaws state that the HOA is not responsible for the sewers leading out of the individual condos. And each Co-Owner when they purchase into the HOA becomes bound by the existing Bylaws even though they may not expressly sign them or approve each one Bylaw individually. It’s a package deal when you buy.
Note 5: The HOA Treasury has some reserves for maintenance of common elements that all Co-Owners share. But this one condo’s sewer repair bill will deplete the Treasury by about 75%, leaving little for other repair needs. The deep pockets would appear to be the insurance companies behing the real estate agents or the home inspector. Good point about the homebuyer’s insurance. Not sure if they had any when they moved in but will check.

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Voting Question: right to compensation for improvements to council property?
My mother of 79yrs was given sheltered housing from council, the previous tenant who was in a wheelchair had all the lower kitchen units removed for easier access, when my mother moved in she was told it would be a few years before the property was due for renovation, so she asked the council inspector if she could install her own kitchen, which he sanctioned, my mother installed a fitted kitchen £3.5k with integrated oven and hob, the council have stated that they wont consider compensation for the oven and hob, and i do appreciate that it states that no appliances will be compensated for, does she have the legal right to take the oven and hob with her? also with it being integrated is it not technicaly part of the kitchen!!! any constructive help or advice would be great.
The big issue is that she has had a transfer to other council property, with a now other inferior kitchen, and before she left the property with the fitted kitchen, the council then decide to renovate ther property with the option to get a new council kitchen which was not as good a quality as the one she fitted, so basically she has saved the council on the price of that kitchen !!!

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