Hellhole House

[romansperson]

@Ass For A Hat

What is this?

It’s basically an insurance policy you can take out on the major appliances in a home. If something breaks during the warranty period, the company you have the warranty through will pay for the replacement.

When we sold our house, we took out a home warranty for all the appliances in our home as a selling point - if anything broke within a five-year period, all the buyer needed to do was contact the company with their receipts for reimbursement of the replacement costs. It cost us $250.

For a lot of reasons, our house was only on the market for 4 days before we got an offer, but I think the warranty helped.

[Ass_For_A_Hat]

@romansperson

When we sold our house, we took out a home warranty for all the appliances in our home as a selling point -

Sounds great. When we bought our house, it was such a seller’s market, that something like that would have been unheard of. Hell, we put in an offer on one place, knowing in advace there would be multiple offers, and our agent advised us not to even make the offer subject to an inspection if we wanted to get the house.

It’s certainly possible that there’s more to Elysian’s circumstances than we know. I’m not sure why you would hire real estate agents and mortgage brokers that you don’t trust though. Seems like asking for trouble.

[PinkMarabou]

It’s not as simple as some of you might think.

We DID have an inspector who my husband spent 4 hours with, he did create a list of things that were wrong and needed to be fixed. Problem is, they (the sellers) told us they were having professionals out the two weeks they would be gone to fix those items, the fixes we had sat down and negotiated with them on.

Moving day comes, they have the garage FULL of their stuff in which they take another few hours to move. They were supposed to leave all the receipts of the work done, but we had none. We tried contacting them, we tried having our realtor contact them, we even threatened their realtor with a lawsuit. But it boiled down to small claims and we have neither the time nor the heart to pursue this with them, especially after they told us to screw off for no reason.

We also have the additional home warranty that covers these little things. Another problem with that, you have to beg them to come out and it’s $50 each time. Not that it’s such a big deal, but many visits add up and you know how insurance is when you make many claims. Like right now, we want them to come out and look at our heat pump to see why our heating bills are so high, but they’re claiming they don’t have enough evidence that it’s the equipment and therefore see no reason to come out.

And we do have dogs, two little 3.5 lb. chihuahuas. They won’t survive a fight with a squirrel, so they won’t offer much protection from a dog 10 times it’s size. It’s not even like there’s any dispute over who the poop came from, my dogs’ looks like rabbits poop and it dissappears as soon as it comes out. Their dog is a collie-type dog who we have witnessed using our yard. It’s NOT the dog’s fault, it’s the owners for not keeping their dog on their property. A couple times this past summer, we gave the neighbors a couple surprises. Imagine dog poop sailing in the air and hitting the side of a house. I told my hubby I wanted to scoop it all up, go over to their house and hand the bag to them and say “you left somethings at our house”. But he won’t let me. sigh.

It’s just to the point where we just don’t care. We’re so tired of putting so much energy into this house. Like I said, we are also biding our time, doing what we can.

[Elysian]

@PinkMarabou

It’s NOT the dog’s fault, it’s the owners for not keeping their dog on their property. A couple times this past summer, we gave the neighbors a couple surprises. Imagine dog poop sailing in the air and hitting the side of a house. I told my hubby I wanted to scoop it all up, go over to their house and hand the bag to them and say “you left somethings at our house”. But he won’t let me. sigh.

It’s just to the point where we just don’t care. We’re so tired of putting so much energy into this house. Like I said, we are also biding our time, doing what we can.

Damnit, my husband keeps me from doing things like that too. Thank goodness, but still grrr. Very mixed feelings about that. But good luck, and those three years may pass faster than you think.

[LionelHutz405]

@Elysian

When you, Lisa, move from Arizona to Ohio and spend five weeks in a company-supplied apartment, when you spend another week in a hotel room on your own dollar because you can’t find a house, when you have to deal with a husband who is FREAKING OUT and two cats who hate hotels, when you have all of your stuff arriving on a truck with NOWHERE to put it, when you have to deal with living in a little fridge and microwave kitchen and you can’t eat out because all of your money is going toward the hotel, and AT THE SAME TIME you are desperately seeking employment, dealing with shitty real estate agents and sellers who are divorcing and shady mortgage brokers and people YELLING AT YOU THE ENTIRE TIME, well, then you can tell me that it was my fault and I should have been better at picking out a home.

As to your current situation, I can only offer my sympathies.

But I hope you realize that if your life is in that much upheaval, it’s** not** the time to be making major purchasing decisions, such as buying a house. You should rent.

[PunditLisa]

Dear Lisa, I respect you for your intellect, but this is pure blame-the-victim crap.

No, it’s a “buyer beware” argument. And it applies even, perhaps especially, to people under a great deal of stress.

I don’t think I deserve it, especially from you.

What you deserve is people’s honesty. Unfortunately, there are liars and crooks in the world. You’ve met some. That does suck.

Did I expect that the leak in the roof was from rain and not a bathtub overflow? Yes, but they swore in writing that it was from the bathtub. I thought that was enough to CMA. But not.

You are the buyer. Why in the world would you think you needed to cover your ass? The seller can’t come back and sue YOU for anything. But, as you know, you can certainly sue them. There are legal remedies available to you, especially since the owners swore in writing that the pre-disclosed leak was from a bathtub.

Ex. 1: My neighbor’s father was forced to refund $12,000 to the buyer of his late father’s house. When the new buyer ripped up the old carpet to install new carpet, he discovered the floor boards were rotten in one room. The seller had no way of knowing this as his father, to his knowledge, didn’t even know. Even though the buyer had been living in the house for months as a renter before buying, and even though he had no evidence that the seller knew about the floor boards, the arbitrators awarded the buyer $12,000.

Ex. 2: A lady from work sold her house. A few months later, she was notified by her real estate agent that the new buyers were contemplating suing her because there was a major cracks in the foundation of the detached garage that wasn’t disclosed. Because peg board had been installed on top of it, the buyer felt that this showed that the sellers were trying to cover it up. They weren’t. The peg board had been there when they bought the house. Instead of fighting it, they chose to settle for $5,000 rather than pay a lawyer to fight it in court.

My recommendation, should you still be listening, is to wait a few days until the steam coming from your ears dissipates, and then contact the real estate agent. Let her know exactly what you’ve let us know. And tell her that you will be holding the sellers acccountable for their deceptions.

As you say, you’re a victim. *Do * something about it.

Until then, shut the fuck up.

I’m sorry. This is the Pit. If you wanted rah-rah replies only, you should have posted in MPSIMS.

BTW, I may be a bitch, but at least I wouldn’t sell you a crappy house and walk away whistling.

[PinkMarabou]

@Elysian

When you, Lisa, move from Arizona to Ohio. . .

Holy crap! You’re in Ohio too???

So are we!!!

this keeps getting weirder and weirder . . .

[Neidhart]

How old is the house?