1Buyerbeware

Approximately six years ago my family and I purchased a ‘cheap’ original character home in the Mount Lofty area and although we are still living quite happily there we would like to caution ‘buyer beware’. When I originally first signed the contract for this house my wife and I employed the best and most reputable building inspection firms in town that money could buy to carry out one of its most expensive and comprehensive building inspections and in that report it stated ‘we needed to budget away for a new roof within the next 6 years’. (Bargain right?)
Well, we should have known better as it turned out this little cheapie had a lot of hidden problems lurking just around the corner as on the first night half the roof blew clean off with a storm and within the first two weeks the sewerage backed up and refused to flow. Then after employing the services of a licensed roofing mob and also that of a plumber to carry out an evaluation of what then needed replacing we then had to immediately had to fork out a large amount that we had not budgeted for an immediate roof replacement as well as for the full excavation of our back yard, including our neighbours fence line and some of their yard as well to replace the original ceramic pipe work that from age had cracked and blocked flow. Since then the house has had a lot of other problems so in hind sight we would like to caution ‘buyer beware’