KaylaMarie1
New Member
Hi,
My husband and I bought a house in April of 2008. When we bought the house we got a 1 page "disclosure statment" stating that the roof was new and other new things. It didnt say anything about the remodeling that they had done to the living room floor, dining room ceiling, and all of the upstairs. I thought in the disclosure statment they were suppose to tell you all of that stuff?? Another thing was that our house has a fireplace (which was a major selling point for me) and central air (both in working condition as stated in the disclosure statment). We bought the house when it was still cold (in April) and when it started to get hot we tried using the central air (didnt work) later that winter we were thinking about using the fireplace, we had someone come and look at it and they said that in order for the fireplace to be usable it would require a sleeve up the chimney (in other words, the fireplace didnt work either). We just shrugged it off because we thought, we had already bought the house, there was nothing we could do about it. A couple weeks ago we decided to amend our 2008 taxes to get the homeowners tax credit and while we were getting our taxes done we got to talking to our tax person about the fireplace and central air not working and that the "disclosure statment" said that they did. She told us that we should contact the lawyer that did our closing and talk to him about recourse for them lying on the statment. Does anyone know if we have a case or not?? Any and all answers would be appreciated
My husband and I bought a house in April of 2008. When we bought the house we got a 1 page "disclosure statment" stating that the roof was new and other new things. It didnt say anything about the remodeling that they had done to the living room floor, dining room ceiling, and all of the upstairs. I thought in the disclosure statment they were suppose to tell you all of that stuff?? Another thing was that our house has a fireplace (which was a major selling point for me) and central air (both in working condition as stated in the disclosure statment). We bought the house when it was still cold (in April) and when it started to get hot we tried using the central air (didnt work) later that winter we were thinking about using the fireplace, we had someone come and look at it and they said that in order for the fireplace to be usable it would require a sleeve up the chimney (in other words, the fireplace didnt work either). We just shrugged it off because we thought, we had already bought the house, there was nothing we could do about it. A couple weeks ago we decided to amend our 2008 taxes to get the homeowners tax credit and while we were getting our taxes done we got to talking to our tax person about the fireplace and central air not working and that the "disclosure statment" said that they did. She told us that we should contact the lawyer that did our closing and talk to him about recourse for them lying on the statment. Does anyone know if we have a case or not?? Any and all answers would be appreciated