Executive Sues House Roof

My husband and i purchased a new home in july 2016 and hired a roofer to immediately repair the roof as it was very old and would not make it through the winter.

Executive sues house roof.

Specified exactly the locations of the leaks that the roof was not a new roof exactly what areas were replaced how and by whom the roof is sold in as is condition and the seller gives no warranties as to the condition. My sellers said the roof was 8 years old with a 25 year warranty. It turns out what we thought was a five year old roof is actually a 16 year old roof. We paid him and there is no outstanding balance.

The statute of limitations is the time allowed for being able to sue after the defect was found or should have been found. When a roofing contractor came to inspect the roof he said the roof was more like. Recently heavy rains resulted in a roof leak. Except if one actually goes to the document buried within a lot of rhetoric criticizing reformers for mentioning the bodine lawsuit we learn.

I have this roofing company as a profit corporation to install the new roof and fix rotted decking and roof leak around the stone veneer chimney area back to april this year. 16 years is most likely out of warranty and as of right now my wife and i are left holding the bag for probably 8 000 in roof repair costs. So if you don t sue your seller within the time frame required in your state you d be. The last permit filed for the roof was in 2000.

Day in and day out contractors around the country are hired to perform such work because they are the experts. Ricky bodine was a 19 year old high school graduate who with three other friends one of whom had a criminal record decided the night of march 1 1982 to steal a floodlight from the roof of the. Our original estimate was 7 500 which went up to 13 000 after the roofer determined that we would need all new sheathing underneath. If you sue the seller for fraud claiming the house was in working order while knowing that there were material issues i don t believe there is a statute of limitations or if there is one in your state it could be as short as one year or longer.

Who is liable for contractors on my roof homeowners and building managers cannot be expected to be experts in every area of maintenance and repairs that need to be performed on their building. Statute of repose is the limit for filing a lawsuit starting from the time of the event such as delivery of the home even if the defect has only recently been found.