Roots2RealEstate

As my last box was packed, and the movers were on their way, I get a knock at my door from my downstairs neighborbor in my soon to be old condo complex.

“Amber, there’s water flooding down my shower wall from the ceiling!” 

Ironically, it took exactly 18 years for a thin hairline crack from when someone over tightened the plumbing pvc piping around the drain pipe that was installed in my building, to open up and crack under pressure.  Resulting in damage to my neighbors bathroom. 

Now I couldn’t pass this on to the new homeowner who was closing escrow for me on time.  Now what?!

As the repair bids came in, most contractors felt that it should be an home owners association issue and I could possibly get them to share some if not all the cost of the repair.  It was explained to me that because this break in pipe happened between both my neighbors and my sub-floor, and that there was no way for me to be aware of such an issue, let alone maintain that area.  As a self respecting agent I hit my C.C. and R’s and looked into the lengthy HOA doc’s that was just given to my buyer.  In it, it said something to the fact that the assocaition is responsible for interior plumbing from the main valve to the building, but not drain pipes inbedded between the two floors. 

Overall, I learned a valuable lesson a day before the place was no longer in my name.  Thank god, it happened then and not a week later - for I would have had one mad past client, and no one wants that!