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Originally Posted by troutman
I've see two homes just this month that were former grow-ops. Many homes have hidden defects that could be very expensive to repair.
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Buying a grow op would suck. I would assume a home inspector would be able to pick up on that. I have looked at more than a few houses that were just shoddy in general as I don't think Calgary homes are well made in general. I've seen places with slanted floors, many with bad drywall, junk appliances, etc as most houses in this city have a skeleton or two in the closet.
I'm not sure what the recourse is on a lot of this stuff though. For instance if you buy a place with a hot water tank that works fine but it's old and fails a month or two after moving in I don't think there's much you can do as stuff breaks down. Our place came with a wine cooler and the home inspector didn't catch it because you turn it on and it works but I found out after leaving it on all nigh that the thing was leaking water all over the floor. Not much you can do but get it fixed or a new one.
We weren't hiding anything. I knew the windows were eventually going to need replacement but they weren't leaking water or anything and it was more of an age thing. Our place was in considerably better condition than most places we looked at for ourselves so it wasn't really surprising we had offers the from the first people that looked at it and sold it the next day after as the place was getting booked for viewings like crazy for days.