緊急求助 just close the escrow then found out water leak

各位好! 我打中文太慢， 請原諒我用英文寫：

We just close the escrow on 7/27/2015 and on 7/30/2015, we went to the house to wait for a company to do garage work.

The kithchen and the dinning room are next to each other sharing one wall. On the kithchen side, there was a refrigirator next to the wall but the refrigirator was taken by the previous tenant (this house was rented out by the prevois owner).

On 7/30/2015, while we were waiting for the company to do some work in the garage, we sat down on the carpet by the wall between the kitchen and dining room. We felt that the carpet was wet after a few minutes. We stood up and looked carefully and found the baseboard is slightly swollen. We followed the swollen baseboard and found that on the otherside of wall (in kitchen), the valve behind the refrigerator was leaking. There was tape on it, so one cannot see the leak from a distance, but when you look carefully, the water is seeping into the wall from the valve. We tried to tighten the valve, but it was already tight.

There could have been some leak before, but the major leak most likely happened after the tenet removed the refrigerator. They probably knew about the leak, so they used some tape to wrap the outlet.

The bottom portion of the wall was sprayed white, so most likely the same thing happened before and the sprayed paint was to cover the water mark and the mold.

We don’t know if the owner and seller agent knew about this or not, but we believe it is the seller’s responsibility to take care of the repair. Currently our planned move has to be postponed because we cannot move before the repair is done.

Our agent has sent emails/pictures and request the previous owner to fix the basebord, mold, valve, and wet carpet. The email was sent to the seller's agent, and we are still waiting for their response. If the seller ingores our request, who we should seek help? Can we hire a laywer to handle this situration?


Please advies.


Thanks！！

所有跟帖： 

• 房子是你的，你需要先修理，再去討賠償 -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (1170 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 08:17:34

• 漏水是房檢後發生的， 應該是租客搬走他們的冰箱後開始漏水的。 房子不是as is。 我們第一個想法是趕緊找公司fix， 但是 -四月姐- ♀ (709 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 09:05:12

• 回應 -單身老貓- ♂ (291 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 09:17:14

• 謝謝。 現在的damage 情況都是我們自己分析的， 如果真是這樣， 我們就自己找公司修了。 -四月姐- ♀ (252 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 09:22:22

• 回應 -單身老貓- ♂ (414 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 09:31:56

• 嗯， 今天去買一個來吹。 正在查youtube， 看怎樣remedy mold等等。 -四月姐- ♀ (321 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 11:05:58

• 先換閥門止漏，然後做別的。 -事後諸葛- ♂ (179 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 21:01:50

• 謝謝， 閥門已換， 修理的已經鋸開dry wall, 在用鼓風機吹。。。 -四月姐- ♀ (204 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 21:13:07

• 至少你的房屋保險可以包括這個損失。你要付自付額。 -事後諸葛- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/01/2015 postreply 06:47:14

• 謝謝詳細解說。 今天會去找修理公司來看看。 -四月姐- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 09:23:53

• 一個閥門漏水並不影響你搬家，你決定不搬家是你的決定，任何損失大概不會算到前房主頭上 -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (135 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 10:52:53

• 修好之前不能搬冰箱，所以沒法住。 今天已經找了修理公司過來檢查， 看看多久可以修好。 -四月姐- ♀ (457 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 11:17:37

• 有漏水，哪裏有mold？ -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (387 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 12:02:01

• LZ 說了: "原屋主在漏水的地方用膠布纏上， 我認為他們是有意隱瞞， 所以認為他們應該負責" -soccerfan- ♀ (28 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 12:54:17

• 我的意思不是說不去討錢，而是說不要因為這麽個很小的毛病耽誤自己搬家和其他事情 -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (348 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 13:27:51

• Estimates $3750 to fix the water damage. It's not about the -四月姐- ♀ (525 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 21:05:24

• 支持你找律師打官司。。。 -N.- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 22:16:08

• most likely the tanant did all this and the owner -PineRock- ♂ (21 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 15:22:57

• 盡管漏水時間不長， 已經有mold。 -四月姐- ♀ (201 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 23:46:58

• Did you do final walkthrough right before closing? -PineRock- ♂ (187 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 15:20:55

• We did final walk through but didn't find this problem. My -四月姐- ♀ (983 bytes) () 07/31/2015 postreply 20:54:38

• 好像除了閥門以外是你們的責任。沒人的房子是把總水閥關掉的。你打開時也不查查? -jin_yin_hua- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/01/2015 postreply 06:50:12

• 你沒事提前三天打開才引起長毛。你怎麽證明是以前壞的? 也可能是你自己弄壞的,close 以後突然壞的。 -jin_yin_hua- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/01/2015 postreply 06:59:54

• You may have a case if you go to court, but very slim. -PineRock- ♂ (1207 bytes) () 08/01/2015 postreply 11:27:31

• 也可能是房客關的。 -jin_yin_hua- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/01/2015 postreply 13:34:30

• 賣方故意隱瞞合同上應該有講吧？ 找你的realtor 看怎麽說。你有沒有做inspection？有個美國同事 -笑薇.- ♀ (88 bytes) () 08/01/2015 postreply 06:00:43