Legal Advice- Ever get sued months after a closing?

[Ryan Kinsella]

I just did.  I closed on my primary residence in May and just got a letter stating that there is a leak in a shower and they are demanding $25k by the end of next week.  Whats sad about this is I'm 99.9% sure that this is an issue from not having a threshold on the glass door and it is dripping on to floor.  It looks like they got a contractor in there to come up with some kind of bs about ripping up a slab ect.  The bathroom is brand new and was permitted which included underground plumbing/rough in/ and final inspections from the city.  There was also nothing about this in the inspection report in the sale of the home.  Any advice?  

[Everett Fujii]

I wouldn't worry about it.  Even if the letter came from a law firm on their legal letter head (which can be done for a couple hundred bucks) if the buyer had the opportunity to conduct inspections there is little to nothing they can do.  

If an inspector came through and they had every opportunity to request repairs and you allowed them reasonable access to conduct inspections you have nothing to worry about.

It's been said many times and will probably be said even more.  Caveat emptor (buyer beware) applies here.  

This is more than likely, what you suspect.   A buyer who got some nutcase GC in there to give them an inflated bid.  And here's the rub.  Even if there was a leak that required ripping up the slab.  As long as they cannot prove you knew about it and hid it from them, and they had inspections done, there's nothing they can do.  This is more than likely a scare tactic and I would ignore it or send them a nice response saying to go pound sand.