- Jurisdiction
- Texas
Good afternoon,
My wife and I purchased a home two years ago as I PCS'd here from Oregon to San Antonio. I had approximately 10 days to find and purchase a home. My wife really liked this house and it had just recently been listed, Sellers disclosure said no issues with the home at all aside from some rusted piping for the water heater and the sliding door didn't latch well. Not an issue. We had an inspection done which stated there was a history of foundation repair based on the concrete patches surrounding the home. Sellers disclosure says no foundation issues past or present.
Three weeks after we moved into the home we noticed that our stone tile floor cracked between our living room and sun room. Which over the course of two months went across the entire width of the floor. Once we did some digging we found that this house was purchased from auction yet a sellers disclosure was provided. The repairs that were done by the company include carpet, drywall, and paint. The carpet was removed by us later on and we found that two slab repairs were done in the past underneath the carpet along with cracks going through the slab across the width of the front room.
This home was a flip so the seller never lived in the home and in theory knew nothing about the home they sold yet still provided a sellers disclosure. In my logic brain, it would make sense that since the repairs were done, photos would have had to be provided by the contractors doing the work for before/during/and after work was done to prove it was completed. They would had to have seen the foundation work because there are even concrete repairs on the front of the house from foundation repair work.
I understand that as a buyer, you effectively buy the house as is, if you find any issues after the fact, it is your problem for the most part. The issue that I have is that the repairs that were done to the home hid the fact there were foundation issues aside from the concrete repairs, and it would be 26k to get the house foundation fixed. Do I have a leg to stand on for getting repayment or at least the foundation fxied.
If you need further information, please let me know and I will provide it to the best of my ability.
My wife and I purchased a home two years ago as I PCS'd here from Oregon to San Antonio. I had approximately 10 days to find and purchase a home. My wife really liked this house and it had just recently been listed, Sellers disclosure said no issues with the home at all aside from some rusted piping for the water heater and the sliding door didn't latch well. Not an issue. We had an inspection done which stated there was a history of foundation repair based on the concrete patches surrounding the home. Sellers disclosure says no foundation issues past or present.
Three weeks after we moved into the home we noticed that our stone tile floor cracked between our living room and sun room. Which over the course of two months went across the entire width of the floor. Once we did some digging we found that this house was purchased from auction yet a sellers disclosure was provided. The repairs that were done by the company include carpet, drywall, and paint. The carpet was removed by us later on and we found that two slab repairs were done in the past underneath the carpet along with cracks going through the slab across the width of the front room.
This home was a flip so the seller never lived in the home and in theory knew nothing about the home they sold yet still provided a sellers disclosure. In my logic brain, it would make sense that since the repairs were done, photos would have had to be provided by the contractors doing the work for before/during/and after work was done to prove it was completed. They would had to have seen the foundation work because there are even concrete repairs on the front of the house from foundation repair work.
I understand that as a buyer, you effectively buy the house as is, if you find any issues after the fact, it is your problem for the most part. The issue that I have is that the repairs that were done to the home hid the fact there were foundation issues aside from the concrete repairs, and it would be 26k to get the house foundation fixed. Do I have a leg to stand on for getting repayment or at least the foundation fxied.
If you need further information, please let me know and I will provide it to the best of my ability.
