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Re: The Fearsome & Mammoth Homeownership Thread Part II: The Revenge

191 by cakes
jfv wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 10:08 am
cakes wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:18 am Check this story out. Our good friends bought a house and we discovered some horrors immediately after closing. My wife and I were interviewed for this article.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchd ... t-poop-pee
Ohhh man, that's awful.

I've sold two homes in my lifetime (that were my primary residence) and wondered after the fact about how much I could screw myself over by declaring whether I was or was not aware of any material defects in the house. The last house I sold was 115 years old - of course there were things wrong with it when we sold it! But I wasn't failing to declare a mountain of cat piss and shit.

I don't have first-hand experience dealing with Grandview, but some family and friends do. Companies like that make all their money by making shitty things look and smell pretty. Sometimes they actually fix the shitty things. Sometimes, when it's too expensive to fix them, they hide them. I hope they are held accountable here. Best of luck to your friends.
Wood Goblin wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:46 am On a brighter note, we close on our new place on Wednesday. It’s a pretty large loft with brick walls and timber ceilings and will without a doubt be the coolest fuckin’ place my wife and I have ever lived. (Happy to report that the inspection was just about perfect. Also: no attic.)
Congrats!!
Well, the fucked up thing is that the house is in a neighborhood where the median value is like $600k. They sold the house for $347k. If the company put like $200k into fixing the house completely and did some nice things like solid doors and decent fixtures, they could have sold it easily for $500k at the very least and still make a decent profit. But they spent very little and sold it for very little. It wouldn't have sat on the market for 2 years, it would have sold immediately. People are moving into this neighborhood.

Re: The Fearsome & Mammoth Homeownership Thread Part II: The Revenge

193 by twelvepoint
The cat thing is particularly icky.

That said... 20K in hidden costs on a new place isn't terrible. A hidden water leak or a crumbling foundation or a bunch of other stuff can run up a significantly higher bill.

While we were the beneficiaries of a fairly recent rehab, the previous owner had to deal with both squirrel and bee infestations!
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Re: The Fearsome & Mammoth Homeownership Thread Part II: The Revenge

194 by zorg
twelvepoint wrote: Fri Apr 25, 2025 11:20 am The cat thing is particularly icky.

That said... 20K in hidden costs on a new place isn't terrible. A hidden water leak or a crumbling foundation or a bunch of other stuff can run up a significantly higher bill.

While we were the beneficiaries of a fairly recent rehab, the previous owner had to deal with both squirrel and bee infestations!
Agreed....and while I have only lived in a major metro and some suburbs, I have NEVER lived in a place that hasn't had critters. I have lived with racoons giving birth in my walls, mice every winter, ants every spring, skunks, hedgehogs, and foxes under patios. Every kind of motherfucker in my trash. Birds' nests and hornets' nests and fucking ugly ass 'possums, and burrowing chipmunks under the foundation, woodpeckers, feral cats shitting in my sandbox, and Chicago's Old Town rats-the-side-of-cats chewing through the floorboards under the refrigerator to eat my underpants. It's not like I live like a pig either (and to the pig's credit, they've not bothered me yet.) So yeah, this sounds really minor set-back honestly. Sooner or later you will have visitors.
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