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| said by robbin  :The roof is an obvious issue. Was it discussed or disclosed? Do you have any pics of previous problems on the inside? You stated "the first winter weather we had the leaks began immediately". Did you complain immediately in November or December? "but even I can see the obvious "band-aid" roof sealing attempts of the owners" Did you look at it before your bought? Ok let me answer these. The first rains and weather we had after I moved in was the bad Ice storm that hit in December. At that time, the roof was leaking--- however, ice was everywhere. As for complaining at that time, I was thinking that ice dams in the guttering and roof edges caused water backup and the leaks.... so I wasn't as concerned just yet figuring this was a freak occurance and that clearing the guttering would take care of it... however that turned out not to be the case. The guttering is well below the edge of the roof, so even if completely blocked with ice the water would still just "overflow" rather then back up on the roof.
Did I look at the roof before I bought it. Not from above. I did look at what I could see from the yard, looked fine. This portion is NOT visible from the ground, only from above. However their was visible evidence of water leaking and some repaired rot. The roof inspector said there was some minor dry-rotting. I didn't ask the inspector or homeowners anything extra pertaining to the roof.
On the disclosure statement there is a line saying "Are you aware of water seepage, leakage or draining problems with the property?" and the sellers circled "Yes" but then X'ed it out and circled "NO" and initialed it.
Something else I just noticed in the Flood/water section...
"Has the property been damaged by flood, storm-run off, sewer backup, drainage, or grading problems?" and again the seller circled "NO" but that's false. There was evidence of water damage in the basement along the bottom edges of wood, etc, and the seller told me that the sewer line used to backup and overflow and that's why the sealed it (he pointed out the old toilet ring--- plugged with cement) and stated that the city had assured him they'd fixed the sewer system since. The basement has other issues too but I'll leave it alone for now, separate issue from the roof, but suffice to say it looks like the sellers were less then complete in their disclosures of known problems.
There's a line that says "Has the roof been repaired or replaced during ownership" and they circled "Yes" but on the next line wrote roof was replaced 8 years ago. No further mention of repairs or attempts at repairs.
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