Treading water

[dpbarr2000]

Originally Posted by Lunatic578

I am just wanting to no who is held accountable for mechanical liens that are on the property I just bought. There are 13 of these.the are basically restoration companies. I found these liens when I was being nosey about the previous owner and a "rumor" of the husband embezzles money and goes to prison. I could not find one article on this but found all of these liens. Evidently my house had in 2007, 2010, and 2013 had flooded. My disclosure papers say nothing of this. My realtor knows nothing if this and calling these companies, the owners gave me earfuls of the amount that is owed to each of these businesses. These companies told me about all of the mold that us growing in my basement. All the damage that was done and not repaired due to the previous owner wanted wanting just cosmetic repairs done. Well I stewed about this during the first rainstorm in our new house and after reaching 6 inches of standing water or what we thought was just rain water. Well, I'm out for blood. In order for us to get any repairs done these past liens need to be taken care of. So, contacted our lawyer. He is confused as to how I found these liens when the title insurance didn't. Obviously a judgement is going to work on the previous owner and in all actuality all of these liens could have been the result of the previous owners husband going to prison for embezzling in the first pkac we or vice versa. But I am courious as to who is responsible for these liens. Is this person responsible for making the corrections that should have been done example, all the mold that is now and has been nesting in my walls of my basement. Thepreviously owner still denies any of the damages even on the disclosure papers

I'm guessing you had no Realtor working with you, and you thought you could save 3% off the listing price?