buying a house

We bought a house in 2006. I know wrong time because the value plunged after we moved in. We finalzed in July 2006 and didn't move in until May 2007. The day after we took possession the bathroom flooded and the story began:

July 13th-

¨       When I got to the house today, Art had torn out the floor in the big bathroom and torn into the 2 walls. He said everything is wet and needs to dry out before he can go on.

¨      Art needed to access the pipes so he opened the wall where Jim's realtor had made the repairs. He found that Jim and his realtor only hid the corroded pipes. He found a pipe with bondo all over it – and corroded! Jim said he was going to fix this pipe. He had told us that he was in the process of changing the pipe and it would be done before he left.

It has been a while since I have entered any info. What a nightmare this is turning into! This Morning Willie went to the house and said that there were several men waiting outside to go in and start tearing up the house. He asked to see their work order. Just for today the cost was $3500! What happened to the $5000 cap? If it's going to cost this much just to rip everything out...good grief! We really need help.

 

 Willie told the the workers he didn’t want to be stuck with a $30,000 bill when they finished. They laughed and said yeah that’s what will happen. I called the insurance and told Blake what happened and he told me that this kind of info could not have come from Alliance. I asked him if he was calling my husband a liar. I'm calling an advocate.

 

Blake seemed very upset that I called Hratch. He told me that this was going to delay the work and that since he was the one that was going to write up the estimate, calling an advocate would only cause problems. He told me that the advocate would take a huge chunk of what ever monies I was to be paid. I told him that I was only worried about getting stuck with a huge bill and I only wanted to guarantee that the work would all get paid for.

 

Anyway- I could go on. Suffice it to say that it only got worse and took over $75,000 just for repairs! If I hated the house, I could walk away but I saw the possibilities from the first moment I saw the house.  We still have things to finish and little by little they will get done. For now I love my house. I have a brand new kitchen, both bathrooms and even the pool was replastered!