I bought a home about 10 years ago from a seller who was incapacitated and not able to complete seller disclosures. My agent and the seller’s agent worked for the same firm. At the time, it was a seller’s market. I am using the same realtor to sell the house that I used to buy it.
A couple years after living in the home, we had a few sewer backups in the basement, and we were aware at that time that it was a matter of when, not if, it would fail. Well when we went to sell the home this year, the buyers required a sewer camera test as a condition of sale and it turned up that there was a section that would need to be replaced, which is going to be rather expensive.
My questions are:
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Why wouldn’t my realtor have recommended a sewer camera test when we bought the home, especially considering we were buying a home with seller disclosures? Is it because the realtor’s colleague was the seller’s agent? Is it because it would make the sale happen faster?
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Would it be reasonable to negotiate all or part of the sewer line repair out of my realtor’s commission because they never recommended the test when we bought the home?
Realtor didn’t recommend sewer camera test
byu/Dazzling-Produce-471 inRealEstate
Posted by Dazzling-Produce-471
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your realtor probably just didn’t think of it back then since sewer scopes weren’t as common 10 years ago, but asking them to eat part of their commission now is a pretty big stretch.
Have you asked them why they didn’t recommend it originally?