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Ripped Off

So we bought a new construction home and started seeing defects. Got an inspector here and he told us to hire a lawyer.

We are looking over the appraisal that the lender made us pay for and they hired their own appraiser and it’s showing everyone who reviews it that the house was over priced.

The house was sold to us with the ceilings not completed with any paint and the drywall’s were not completed with paint, closets still have primer and all the windows do not have wooded sills and no paint but primer, the windows were not caulked and have big gaping cracks in them, there was an attic pull down stairs listed which we did not get and dry wall pros are saying the entire drywall needs to come down.

We had a ceiling leak and plumbers went up and saw all the vent pipes in attic lose with no pipe glue the pipes just fall apart when you take them up and there are waste gases being let out up in the attic.

Got the county inspection report and it’s only 5 pages and they only did inspections on the rough-ins and after that final inspection and nothing else.

Now we are left in this with our young kids as the house falls apart everyday and lawyer is saying we can’t sue the government or the appraiser because his obligation was to the lender even though we paid for the appraisal!!!

I’m so depressed and feeling like this country is a messed up place. Even if we decide to sell this house is not worth anywhere near what we paid for it.

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