Re: very OT: first time homebuyer questions re: roof


"bizby40" <bizby40@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"L." <gentleboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Absolutley not - not in a newly-purchased home. You need to be
educated before you buy. You have to be your own advocate. For
example, the people seeing the house with the dead filtration
system
should have turned it on when they were viewing the house. If you
have
things go wrong shortly after purchase, you didn't do your
homework.

Okay, I take it all back. If you are as smart as L, you will only
buy a perfect house. The rest of us are likely to have something go
wrong not long after buying it.

Other than that you like you argue with me, I'm not sure what you
are trying to do here. You say that people will try to hide any
problems, which is true (the disclosure forms don't say you have to
disclose any and everything -- if I remember right, it's only
structural things like leaking roofs, termite damage, etc. -- flaky
garbage disposals don't count).

Oops, I didn't really mean "only structural", I meant something more
like "only major". Even at that, I'm not sure if I'm remembering
right, it's been a few years. But I sure don't remember having to
disclose the age of my garbage disposal, and if an appliance of mine
works when I sell it, I don't think I'm responsible if it quits
working the next day, unless there is proof that I knew about the
problem somehow. Sometimes appliances just die with no prior warning.

You tell me that all leaky roof signs are easily hidden
so that it's impossible for an inspector to tell if one leaks or
not. And then you turn around and say that if you do your homework,
you can find all possible problems. Whatever.

BTW, I'm not sure how you think you'd find the garbage disposal
problem anyway. You flip it on, it's running fine, how would you
tell that it's going to stop running in 3 weeks time?

Bizby





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