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Buying a house with a non-permitted Remodel

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  1. AGSlack AGSlack is offline

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    May 9th, 2012 (5/9/2012 4:25pm) in reply to lukaluka05

     
    Originally Posted by lukaluka05 View Post

    You don't have a case. That is why you hire an inspector, to find these things out. You don't get your money back when you do. That is such a small amount of money it's not worth going to court over IMO. Time to forget about that place and continue on your search. Good luck...


    Essentially this. If they knew about it but did not disclose it on the sellers disclosure you might be able to argue that you wouldn't have even ordered the inspection and simply walked away originally.

    That said it would be a long nasty process and if I were you I'd just consider it $375 well spent to get you out of a potentially terrible deal. Good luck moving forward, let me know how the firing of the current realtor goes I'm curious to hear about it.
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    May 9th, 2012 (5/9/2012 6:11pm) in reply to AGSlack

    Its only cost $250 to file papers for the arbitration and if I won if get reimbursed the filing fee.
     
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    May 9th, 2012 (5/9/2012 6:32pm) in reply to time4badbeat

    I guess just read over what criteria has to be met to demand a refund of inspection fees from the owners and if you think you have a strong enough case go for it.
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    May 9th, 2012 (5/9/2012 10:47pm) in reply to time4badbeat

     
    Originally Posted by time4badbeat View Post

    welp . . decided to walk away, kind of disappointing but the sellers didn't want to budge at all and over half the house has non-permitted work plus now that I know about it all I'd have to disclose it when I went to sell and would get fd on price.

    I requested that they reimburse my $375 inspection fee because they added a closet and installed a furnace w/out disclosing that it was done w/out permits. Think I have a case? If they decline to reimburse, I signed the arbitration agreement thing, do you think I'd win if I filed w/arbitration ?

    thank god. poorly done electrical and issues with the hvac. so... nothing serious then? it's not like those things could kill you or anything. I didn't read past this, but was surprised no one posted the "free candy... don't be a pussy" picture. I didn't catch whether you have kids or not, but taking chances with your family is probably not a good idea.

    umpermitted work is one thing, work that you know was done poorly (i'm pretty sure the polarity of outlets is Electrician 101) is another thing entirely.

    gl op
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    May 10th, 2012 (5/10/2012 2:25am) in reply to five4suited

    So deal may be back on, asking sellers to fix electrical and hvac issue and they swear they have all the permits. I wrote a clause in there saying they warrant and represent that all work has needed permits so we should have recourse if we find out down the line of issues
     
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    May 10th, 2012 (5/10/2012 2:33am) in reply to time4badbeat

    permits out of thin air?
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    May 10th, 2012 (5/10/2012 2:53am) in reply to sponge1430

    yeah how did that happen? regardless glad to hear it might be working out for ya
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    May 10th, 2012 (5/10/2012 4:37am) in reply to AGSlack

    I'm tempted to invite over the city inspector for dinner my first night there - let him look around - get the paper work ready for some arbitration cause I don't believe for a second that everything is permitted but at least this will give me concrete recourse if something were to ever happen.
     
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    May 10th, 2012 (5/10/2012 4:40am) in reply to time4badbeat

    You sure are hell bent on this one house with so many red flags.
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    May 10th, 2012 (5/10/2012 4:42am) in reply to time4badbeat

     
    Originally Posted by time4badbeat View Post

    I'm tempted to invite over the city inspector for dinner my first night there - let him look around - get the paper work ready for some arbitration cause I don't believe for a second that everything is permitted but at least this will give me concrete recourse if something were to ever happen.

    Oh my.
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    May 10th, 2012 (5/10/2012 4:51am) in reply to AGSlack

    Last night we submitted a purchase agreement cancellation and I guess they called today and were like what do we need to do to keep the deal going, and we said make sure all permits are on the up and up - submitted that, still waiting to hear response.

    The inspection came back pretty clean, just a couple electrical outlet issues but other than that not much else.
     
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    May 10th, 2012 (5/10/2012 4:55am) in reply to time4badbeat

    Just curious, is this the first house you have bought?
     
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    May 10th, 2012 (5/10/2012 12:05pm) in reply to scgolfer

    Yep
     
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