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Property Condition Disclosures

  How do you ask a seller about their knowledge of problems with their home?

Do you have to ask specific questions,

Dose the roof leak?
Is their foundations problems?
ect.....

Thanks in Advance.

TonyB
 
 

 

Hi Tony!
I don't know what state you live in.  Here in New York, for example, the seller must give you a written disclosure of property condition, answering 43 specific questions.
A good all-purpose question, asked in front of witnesses, is "Are there any problems with the condition of the property that I can't see for myself?" 
In addition, it's wise to have your purchase contract written to allow you to bring in a home inspector, and to cancel the deal if you don't like the report you get. 
Good luck to you
    Edith
Originally published on April 19, 2007
 
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