What do you mean all the copper plumbing was cut out?
I recently was showing a foreclosed home to a client in the Hollins area when we walked into the master bathroom and noticed the toilet was in the bathtub. Okay, a little strange but not too crazy for some of the foreclosures out there. We peered down the round hole in the floor where the toilet used to be and what did we see? The basement. (Normally you’d expect to see the all black interior of a pipe.)
Wow we said, what happened to the pipe? Of course I went downstairs and started poking around and every bit of copper pipe that used to be in the house WAS GONE! Someone had used a hacksaw (and a very poor hack job it was) and cut out all the copper lines. The only thing left were the ties that had held the pipe to the floor joists and some scorch marks where someone had done some soldering in the past.
What a disaster for the selling agent who hadn’t noticed it!
What’s the point? Caveat emptor.
When buying a foreclosed home, it’s extremely important to have an experienced foreclosure agent on your side to not only represent you but also to look for problems (like this one) that rear their heads with these homes. AND bring on board an experienced home inspector who spends more than 30 minutes in the house.
