kellycorino :
I will add, as a seller, don't listen to your agent if they recommend omitting or indicate you are not required to report structural repairs on your disclosure. We had a contract fall through on our 4 year old house because our agent explicitly instructed us to not disclose a structural repair to a load bearing wall that was completed by the original builder when we discovered an issue about a year after we had moved in. This mistake cost us so much because the 2001 dot.com crash occured right after that, and the housing market in our area, especially for larger hones, dropped practically overnight. Of course, after the contract fell through, we insisted our agent revise our disclosure to include the repair. We eventually sold the house, but at a price so low that it barely covered our remaining mortgage. The worst part is that the repair was solid, so the first potential buyer would have completed the deal if we had included the repair in our original seller's disclosure, but he chose to cancel the contract specifically because he felt we had not been truthful and could not be trusted. We should have trusted our instincts and included the repair in the original disclosure regardlessof our agent's instructions. Unfortunately, the omission was our agent's fault, but we paid the price, literally.
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