Forum Archive: Posts by: dcyn1

I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem with a short sale. I’m under contract ,since June 2010, with a short sale, a 3- family brownstone, which is supposedly closing October 15. In July, the FHA consultant came out to do his report and take pictures of the property. I recently (yesterday)went to the house to get some last minute estimates completed. Well, I discovered YESTERDAY that someone had pulled the water meter from the attached piping and the hot/cold water piping was missing in the boiler room (plumber estimated cost of $5,300). Coincidentally, I had a plumber with me at the time of this discovery. The house had previously been broken into and all parties notifed.I’ll explain, being a first-time homebuyer I sometimes use to driveby the house and marvel that I was soon to be the owner (I doubt I’m the only one who has ever done this). It was in August doing one of these drive-by that I noticed the front yard celler hatch propped open and the door on the side of the stoop wide open. Well, it turned out police was called and they speculated that maybee some kids had broken in to”hangout” ( it should ne noted this building is vacant and has been for some time, previous residents were evicted and left ALL sorts of trash and junk throughout the 4 stories). MY realtor notified the seller’s broker and my lawyer notified the seller’s attorney that is is the seller’s duty to secure the property( yeah, they secured it by putting a chain on the backyard cellar hatch but not the front). Bottomline, they said they would( realtor and myself checked property at least three different time over the last two months and the still had not),but didnt…still haven’t ( I checked at 5pm today, also took pictures)!! Im getting the impression that my realtor, lawyer and mortgage broker are kind of miffed at me for being it up…I was told “Well, the bank is not going to do anything about it and the seller dones’t have any money, its a short sale….AS-IS “, or I’m asked with an attitude does this mean I want to cancel the contract. My question is ..why am I the “bad guy” in this situation. When I signed the contract I siged it under the impression the property was being sold in as-is condition of that present time it has since benn altered, it is no longer in the as-is condition I signed the contract. Am I crazy here??