All Forum Posts by: Cheng Chen

Hi,

I have my own buyer agent to help me to buy a house. The house is for sale by owner. Originally, Seller signed contract and willing to do dye test and  repair sewer line if it fail the municipal inspection.

Then came the contingency period,  I paid about $700 for home inspector , hvac and plumber come for home inspection.

After that, the dye test failed, plumber quoted $5000 for sewer line repair. Seller changed her mind and refuse to pay or credit anything toward sewer line repair. So, seller breached the contract. I no longer want the house if I have to pay for $5000 for sewer line repair.

But , I want to recoup the $700 I paid for inspection. What can I do to get the seller to pay for that? Do I have to sue the seller to get the money back?

Thank you so much for your advises!!

Cheng

 Hi Wayne , 

The house is not a REO, but sold by owner. What will you do in this case? Thanks!

I bought a house under special warranty in Pittsburgh,PA ,May 2017. Seller never disclose water problem in basement in their property disclosure.  

The house was rented on August 2017. Tenants places a lot of their stuffs in the basement which covered the whole basement floor. Tenants never went down to basement to check  stuffs since then. Around March 2018, tenant complained about basement flood. The flood came from a corner of the foundation. 

contractors came inside for inspecting the water damage. They think the water leakage started before I bought the house. 

I was left to pay $11k to water proof external wall and installing French drain. 

#1 : Do I have right to ask seller for covering any cost under special warranty deed? 

#2: For $11k , does it worth the trouble to ask attorney to pursue it legally?  

#3: What will you do in this situation? 

I appreciate very much for your opinions! Thank you! :)

Cheng 

Thank you all for your great advises! I really appreciate it!

I attempted to have seller to disclose , but no result. I agree that I can't even expect a good seller disclosure to disclose everything. I will take some risk to accept the empty seller disclosure, but hire a good inspector.

Thank you again!

Cheng 

Hi,

I am new to bigger pocket and new home buyer.

I live in Pittsburgh, PA. There is a house I want to buy. The wife is the recorded title owner. She passed away. So the husband is the administrator of the Estate. According to the seller's attorney, The husband has no legal standing to complete the seller disclosure. So, all fields are left unknown on seller disclosure. The husband did live in that house for decades. I assume he does has some knowledge of that property.

I could hire a home inspector to inspect the house. I wonder what are the risks to accept an empty seller disclosure? What should I do to lower the risk for getting a problematic property? Should I even consider this house?

Thank you in advance!

Cheng