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just bought a house with flooding problems
Asked on May 26th, 2015 on Residential Real Estate - Pennsylvania
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Bought a house a week ago.The 2nd night here we had a rain storm.The basement immediately started to flood.This issue was known from the start.It was one of the things the owner was supposed to fix.But he used the company he works for as the supposed contractors.They informed us he is thier employee and did work on his own.The seller submitted a company letterhead report stating the work was done.Which of course he just did a cosmetic makeover to present that the work was done.The company says they did not do it.rven though we have a letter saying they did.When trying to contact the company we were transferred to voicemails and never got a call back.I feel with the fraudulent papers submitted. And under these circumstances. The seller and contractor are obligated to fix the problem.
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I'm really sorry to hear about this -- how disappointing to buy a new house only to find it has some serious problems. You may have a viable claim against the seller, realtor (if one was involved) and the contractor. You'd have to look at the sales agreement to verify that you did not waive any important rights and accept the property "as is". The seller should have also given you a disclosure statement before you bought the house that provided you historical information about the condition of the house. Best bet would be to give the seller an opportunity to fix the problem at their expense. If, by a date certain, they do not take you up on that, you should have the problem fixed and then consider filing suit against the seller and request reimbursement of the cost of repairs that you had to pay from your own pocket.
Answered on May 26th, 2015 at 11:29 AM