I did an inspection shortly before Christmas. The buyer is from Tucson. She made the mistake of calling the name on the sign. The home is owned by HUD. The agent that was assigned to her by the guy on the sign, which never returned her phone call, said that a company inspected the home for HUD. That company said that all the electrical equipment and plumbing was in working order.
When I arived at the home in Buckeye I hunted down the water meter. That in itself was not an easy task. There was many leaves covering the lid. I opened the lid and cleaned the dirt from around the valve. The dirt looked as if it had not been disturbed for at least a year. The ring that the water company puts through the valve to lock the water off had completely rusted through. As soon as I turned the water on it began gushing out of a pipe under the corner of the home. I shut it off and investigated further. Copper thieves had broken the flex connecter that supplied the house. Not a single drop of water made it into the house.
When I went to the electric meter all the wire from there to the panel inside the home was gone. Whoever took it sure did a lot of damage to the back door and the panel inside.
The neighbors told the buyer that the wire was stollen over a year ago. How could the HUD inspection company certify that everything worked in this home when there was no sign that they ever even drove to Buckeye to view the home?
The buyer is buying it as-is for cash. Should this buyer be able to force HUD or the inspection company to make the repairs?
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