said by nunya:BTW, if you are ever interested in a property and want to know the history, talk to the neighbors. A neighbor is worth 100 disclosure forms. That's who told me the back story on this one. A lot of times neighbors neighbors can clue you in to anything from wet basements to crime problems to neighborhood discord.
This couldn't be more true. We got kinda burned when I bought our first house, the guy next door ended up being a real tool (abused his wife, loud parties, shooting illegal fireworks, etc). I started hearing things on move-in day from my other neighbors which sadly ended up being all too true. I regret not talking to them before I signed on the dotted line, because I would have passed on the house.
Sadly, I had no neighbors to talk to when I bought this place. The house on my right was a vacant foreclosure at the time and everything else around me is open space. The folks across the street weren't around because they are part-time residents. Things they told me once I met them would have helped me negotiate a little better, but there were no surprises otherwise.
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