# You fucking greedy bastards, I hope it falls down on top of you (house buying drama) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-greedy-bastards-i-hope-it-falls-down-on-top-of-you-house-buying-drama/525985 "2010-01-22T13:11:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-greedy-bastards-i-hope-it-falls-down-on-top-of-you-house-buying-drama/525985/61 "2010-02-03T05:24:34Z")
One practical moral to this story: It isn’t smart to leave water in the pipes of an empty house where there’s even a remote possibility of sub-freezing temperatures. And it’s really, really dumb to leave mains water (or any other substantial source) connected to such pipes. IOW: Frozen pipes = bad Frozen pipes through which much water can flow = unholy disaster Note that in most cases the unholy disaster can be prevented by closing a single valve (takes about 10 seconds). ---
**Author:** ![Shakespearo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Shakespearo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakespearo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-greedy-bastards-i-hope-it-falls-down-on-top-of-you-house-buying-drama/525985/62 "2010-02-06T03:23:28Z")
It is a bit dishonorable by the seller, especially since the insurance is going to pay for it, though I suppose they have a right to do this since the paperwork wasn’t completed in a rapid manner. But it’s an asshole move, and you are better off not trading with this kind of person, and thank your lucky stars this happened on their watch, not yours. Did you get your deposit back? BTW, is this in the United States? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-greedy-bastards-i-hope-it-falls-down-on-top-of-you-house-buying-drama/525985/63 "2010-02-06T04:09:11Z")
It’s in London, **Shakespearo**. Is the house a “house” (as in, an independent building) or a flat? One of the reasons I have a housesitter is that my “house” is a flat and, even if I do close and empty the water pipes that service my flat, there are still other pipes in the walls which are not under my control, servicing the other flats. One of the times his pressence came in handy was when the neighbor below had a leak in one of her ceilings (that is, my floor): the problem came from one of her pipes, but the plumber thought he might have to open my floor (eventually he didn’t need to). ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-greedy-bastards-i-hope-it-falls-down-on-top-of-you-house-buying-drama/525985/64 "2010-02-10T06:04:32Z")
Did I miss something? Isn’t the house still for sale? How much more do they want? Oh, and sorry for your experience. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-greedy-bastards-i-hope-it-falls-down-on-top-of-you-house-buying-drama/525985/65 "2010-02-19T04:19:49Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > And am I the only one that had no idea what [gazumped](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazumping)meant? I didn’t either. I just accepted it as a verb meaning they got screwed. Kinda like the noun/verb/adjective/adverb “smurf”; you just know what it means in context. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-greedy-bastards-i-hope-it-falls-down-on-top-of-you-house-buying-drama/525985.md?page=3)