Join hosts Kevin McKenna and Alex Manolov, as they embark on a captivating journey through the fascinating world of "Real Estate Horror Stories." This podcast promises to explore a plethora of unusual property transactions and eccentric home-buying encounters, all while striking a balance between comedic relief and insightful lessons for both homebuyers and industry professionals. With guest speakers gracing the show with their intriguing experiences, you will be thoroughly entertained and educated. Embrace the complexity of real estate and extract valuable knowledge from the chaos!
Join hosts Kevin McKenna and Alex Manolov, as they embark on a captivating journey through the fascinating world of "Real Estate Horror Stories." This podcast promises to explore a plethora of unusual property transactions and eccentric home-buying encounters, all while striking a balance between comedic relief and insightful lessons for both homebuyers and industry professionals. With guest speakers gracing the show with their intriguing experiences, you will be thoroughly entertained and educated. Embrace the complexity of real estate and extract valuable knowledge from the chaos!
However, on. Welcome back to what the data show, however, and welcome back to Real estate horror Stories. I'm Kevin McKenna and this is Alex Night Off. So when we talk about today. So if you remember last week we talked about a client I had a struggle with over a fake roof. And we you know, we were able to recover the square deposit. I highly recommend go listen in or watch that episode. It's everywhere. You can get podcast and on YouTube to kind of be filled in on what we're talking about today. And after after that whole incident with the fake roof and struggling to get the escrow for, you know, three months, she she stuck around and said, all right, let's go find something else. Which was a surprise to me because, frankly, I think I at that point probably deserve to be fired. And so she stuck around and we we did the exact opposite of where we were looking. And we went to South Florida. And it went all very well. No. Oh, went horrible. It was a we were so we were in New Smyrna Beach to begin and we were originally looking to land to, you know, that that area is going to be on the East Coast. And she's like, you know what? Let's just go back down south. Let's go to Stuart Vero Beach area to we can find. And I was like, sure. You know, at this point, I'm I'm part committed. I'm all in like, let's let's find something. So we were down in Stuart and we were probably down there for actually, I think we were able to find the house that she liked on the first week, which was impressive. So I'm like, great, you know? And on the listing record, it said, and this is where the story's going to go. But it said that water here knew, AC knew public sewer and public water, which is great because she didn't want to septic tank. So, you know, we saw the house. We put an offer on the house. They accepted the offer, and immediately we get the inspector out there and he's doing the inspection. And I don't know, I actually didn't see the property. She didn't see it either. We're going to see it during the inspection period. Oh, so you just saw it on. Yeah, we, we, we couldn't. We couldn't. So yeah, it was not word. It was in the first time. It. I mean. This is how she wants to do. It. Yeah. It was sight unseen and we couldn't see it because at the time the owners were still there. So when we were driving around in Stuart that weekend, you know, we saw the for sale sign and pulled it up on showing time. You know, it's a shows available. Um, but from the onset she loved it you know had a nice fenced in yard in a good part. Stewart where she wanted to be I mean it was priced well. So, you know, we pulled the trigger that way. Inspection periods are for. Yeah, that's why we have a that's why we have an inspection period and, you know, pull the trigger to the full 15 day inspection on this one. Okay. To give us plenty of time to figure, you know, figure it out. And so we get the inspection and in the listing description again, said new water heater, new AC. So very important details because they had to be permitted. Those are permit requirements for people who don't know if you get an AC done in your house or a water heater, which is very simple, just pull a permit. It's 100 bucks and it's going to save you all the struggle for whoever buys it. So the inspector sends me a picture of the water heater. It was floating in the air like it was, you know, you could probably fit this city under it and you had the ground and then you had the water heater and it was just hovering like no brackets. It was simply hovering because the the pipes, the. Pipe was. The pipe was holding it in place. And I'm like, all right. Good start. Great start. That's not OC. And then the AC was it was the air handler. The outside AC was fine, but the air handler itself, for those who don't know, it's typically, you know, in a closet or in your garage on a shelf dedicated to the air handler, you know, And again, he sends me a picture, no shelf floating in the air with brackets coming out of the walls, stuck into the AC, told it in place. Where do they find these people? I don't even know. I don't know what was going on. How do you get that job done? Yo looks good to me. Does it work? Great. Awesome. Cosby $500 off. Yeah. And that contractor's gone. I don't know. It happens, believe it or not, all the time, because you know, for those who don't know and I'm about to find out, you don't know, but I'm about to replace my water heater and AC and I know I could get the water heater down for like 700 bucks, no permit, but I'm not going to do that. And there's been, you know, probably a grand to have it every, you know, everything done right, because I want the headache and safety. My ass is going to be a pain because it's in the attic. And that's a whole boondoggle, you know, to bring it out and put it in there. But I'm going to go through the same deal. And, you know, for people don't know, it is of course, everything is significantly cheaper when you do it wrong. Really? Really. I thought the experts paid charge the least amount. No. Believe it or not, they do not. Okay, good enough. So, you know, when you pay to do something wrong, it's going to cost you half of what you really would have to pay to a real contractor. Understandable, you know, especially for people who are in a tight situation. I it but if you're going to sell the house, just do it right. You might not even get it back. So those were the first two red flags. And then there was an issue with plumbing, which we originally thought was with the water heater because it was floating in the air. You said the tiles wouldn't flush and it looked like there was back. You know, I don't even know. It's called. The it's. Coming out to the toilet and it's in the tub and stuff. This only happens when you have a septic tank, by the way, or unless there's drainage problems. Yeah, like, like, Yeah, exactly. Very rarely happens. Very, very rarely. Only like, hurricanes and stuff like that will happen. Yeah. So we're like, okay, um, you know, we were told that it's on public water and city sewer, you know, of. Did you find something that would tell us this? At first he was like, well, there was a pipe because there was a crawlspace home. There was a pipe under that looked like it was leaking. So that could be a problem. And we're like, okay, So we tell the sellers all this and, you know, we asked that everything get, you know, one, that they get a city inspector out there and actually confirmed the permits. So again we're back talking with because again it goes goes back to. Goes back to the city. Yeah. And the city is like, no, that's in the county's jurisdiction. So we're just going back and forth again, going to the city, trying to get documents. They don't have them go to the county. County doesn't have anything. So it turns out that import permit for anything, I'm like, all right, this explains the levitating AC and water heater. Yeah, they probably figured it out. Of course. Yeah. I want them to admit that, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're like, if these are the only problems, we're fine moving forward. You know, if you can fix these problems, then we'll move forward. And to their, to their credit, they, they did get contractors out there and that same week, first week of inspection period to fix the leaking pipe under the house, which we thought was the problem with the pressure and everything else and redo the water heater and AC to have them, you know, done right. Permits were pulled, everything was done. City Inspector was supposed to be out the following week to inspect. Have you figured out this whole whether it's city or septic yet. Or get to that. Okay so we call the inspector back out after they've repaired everything. We don't know that the permits aren't closed yet, but just go, you know, go inspect, let us know what you think. You said. Yeah, everything's passed. But you still have that problem with the water pressure and the coming up in the bathrooms. So we're like, Huh? Can you do us a favor and see if there's a septic tank? Be Because they're telling us that there's not. But, you know, at this point, there's no issues with the city plumbing. Otherwise the whole. The whole block of. The whole block would be screwed, you know, And everyone would be complaining. The city would have fixed it. At this point, we're weekends. It was like after we got like five days left, bro, you got to do you got to figure this out before it gets real again. So he discovers the septic tank. It's like, Yeah, it's the front of the house. It's actually coming out of the ground. At this point, we're like, It was a home built in the fifties again. And it was, you know, one of those old concrete septic tanks, not the, you know, not like the new ones that we had. Yeah. Not not a metal one either like concrete. And we're like, great. So he says that this is happening because one, it's either full, which probably was. And then too you may have a cracked one if it's sliding like this, which means water is creeping out of it, just, you know, messing up the ground around it and starting to slide out. You know, like what happens with all the crawl space homes, especially in Florida as it rains for years and years and years. Eventually they just slide away. Don't fly across basements unless you have to. So we're like, great. So we we asked for an inspection extension and they wouldn't give it to us. So there's four days left at this point and we're like, we got to get a septic inspector out there ASAP. So my buyer or. Even after all this, you're still again, it goes back to the fake roof part. You're still like, Let's keep going with it. Do not let us cancel it. Well, because, you know, it was a great house. And if if everything could be resolved. Which I guess it did. Resolved. Yeah. Yeah. So you figure they're going to resolve the second issue. Correct. And you know, and that's the thing. Kind of bring it back to the first episode and again, go listen to it. If you haven't, that trust factor that you have to put with each party is enormous, you know, sellers to their listing agent buyers to their buyer's agent. You know, the game of telephone has to be clear. And in this case, we had no reason to think, not because, you know, they were working with us. And at the end of the day, it's it's more beneficial for both parties to work together to get to the common goal of closing than it is to just say, screw it, we're out of here where you go find something else, because then you just repeat the process and that's that. That would, I say, is probably the most tiring part of a real estate transaction, especially if, you know, you go under contract multiple times and each inspection just comes back horrible, you know, and it's like, great. I just went and I just went and spent another $300 on inspection. You know, I've had people who will go for inspections deep before they find the house that they want. So at this point, you're, you know, your grand 5000 bucks into inspections. And it's just you know, it's a bullet. They got to buy it. Because if the sellers don't want to work with you, you don't want to pick up those problems. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it's it's it's just easier to even if the closing gets extended, you know, I mean, again, there's I've had contracts that have gone three months waiting for repairs. Just that's how that's how it be. Yeah. If they agree to that. If they agree. Yeah. And it's like you know, you still got to go through all the proper steps. But regardless, it was easier at this point for us to work with them. Yeah. And. And try to get everything figured out is. Well exactly but you know if we got something, you know, the safety inspection was done on the inspection period, it's still subject to, you know, we got to still negotiate in that time. But if the inspection was done, the inspection was done. Yeah. And luckily we were able to find a septic company who was actually there that week on that street. So I guess we'll stop by and just, you know, check it out, because all they do is, you know, it does suck. They do have to drain it, but they already had the truck and everything with them. So it was like, yeah, well, we'll inspected for you. You know, $500 inspection, not cheap septic inspections. Oh, yeah. But you. Know, always or that always. Worked. Especially, you know, down, down here in Florida, you know, we didn't have infrastructure. So like five years ago. So everybody and their mother was on a septic tank. It's not you know, you don't just get city publican sewer. We don't get inspected and something goes wrong about a grand. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It could be expensive. Yeah. Septic tanks, you know, they're like sleeper cells. It's a, it's a part I would say a lot of realtors and a lot of home buyers forget, you know, I've only had a handful of actual clients who have been like, is this, you know, do we need to get a septic inspection or I'm already going to pay for a septic inspection and there's only been a couple people who have bought, you know, homes with a septic tank or just like, yeah, screw everything works like deal with it. And, you know, at that point it. Came out where you find out cracks and you guys want grand. Yeah. To get it fixed. Yeah. Oh, we should do that. Yeah. Well. I told you. 600 bucks. What better than 8000? Yeah. So, you know, we got the inspection done. Septic company comes back and they're like, Yeah, this thing is ancient. Ancient. They're like, We don't even know how it's alive. They they look. They said it's pictures of the inside. And there's a basically it's like, you know, it's like a I don't even know how big it was, but the crack was from the very bottom of the sector tank all the way up, like, just like someone was trying to rip it open. I think it was tied and they could see it probably was. On deep enough to see it, like on that little tiny cannon that they stick in there. Yeah. Oh, yeah, Yeah. So we knew that that was a big problem. And now the issue is not a matter of replacing a septic tank because city, city, sewer and city water was available. But to do that and this will happen, you know, the people out there, you might experience this, you live in a rural area and then out of nowhere you got public city and sewer. The city will ask you, do you want to hook up to it or not? You don't have to remove your septic tank, but you do have to spend. I think it was like ten or 15 grand to Oh yeah, because they have to come out and dig it up and hook you out. Of the city would do that. No, that's not how that works. Yeah, I love this. I mean, city run the line. Well, you do it. Well, I think the same. Thing because I'm going to pay the city for it. So you want. You want my money or not? I think the same thing. But it's not. It's not how it works. Or I'll run for mayor and start doing it for free. I'm sure you're going to like it for sure. Go, go, go, Run a run a campaign. It's a business. Where town? I'll. I'll spend ten grand up front. And do you be connected for the rest of your life? Spending however much. So. So in our mind we're like, Oh, that's an easy fix. We tell the owner to cough up a credit because at this point she was cash or, you know, she was cash in the beginning anyways. But because she's cash, it's easy to just lower the price and give her the money that way because you don't have closing costs. Really, when you're a cash buyer, you know, you're not paying origination fees or anything like that. You're usually just paying your deed and dock stamps, which just puts it in your name in the title transfer fees. So a couple hundred bucks? Yeah. So it's easier to just get a price reduction and say, all right, yeah, we'll take ten grand off. But we wanted 15 because there were some other things in the house that had issues, you know, and nothing major, but she wanted to take care of it and we needed to know for sure that it was going to get hooked up with the city, you know, and they didn't miss it. There's not a window. But then you miss the initial window. There's a big increase in price for sure. Pretty sure. And the seller just wouldn't budge. So I was like, No, there's nothing wrong with the house. After all the evidence, again, No, we did everything you want. We got permits for the AC and water heater. We fixed those even though they were levitating. And now you want us to cough up money, which they don't have to. In reality, they just want the price lowered. You want us to lower the price now so that we can fix a problem? That was never a problem when we lived there. Word for word what the agent told me. And I'm like, Well, funny thing about septic tanks is when they go bad, it doesn't just happen slowly. Yeah, it happens immediately. It's not like you go flush the toilet in the morning and it works and then you flush again at night. Everything's fine now. It'll happen overnight. It will happen in that first hour. You may foster it and it works in the morning. You make it home at night and take a giant until you can hold it all day. And next thing you know, it's on your floor, you know? So the guy just didn't want to budge at all. So, you know, make a long story short, you know, like I said, it's going to be shorter story on this one. We just canceled. No fight for escrow, nothing else. We pay for all the inspections. The guys yard was dug up at this point to find the septic tank. So we left that property tore up. Yeah, I was gonna say no worse condition than it was, but we at least fixed the water here. Yeah, I mean, they're. They're going to sell their house. They're going to address those issues anyways. Yeah. That's what, that's, I don't give it to sellers is. No, we're not going to do that. Well you know, we're going to cancel it. You're gonna waste all this time now. So what else did you come in, put an offer and find the same problem. Go for that. Yes or no. Yeah. And that goes back to you know, your point is like, you know, why would you stick it out and try to work with the sellers? Because, well, it's in the seller's best interest at this point to. Yeah, because, you know, we go through all this rigmarole to figure out all the issues of the property, and then he already started going to fix the problems. Why wouldn't you just fix it in full? You know, now you have a torn up yard with a ancient septic tank sticking out and you don't want to spend ten grand, 15 grand to hook up. This is not even spent. Just lower the price. So the price, Yeah, She's like, you don't have to do it. You don't have to do it on the contract. I'll do it when I move in, you know, fix the problem, you know, overnight because the city I don't know how Stuart is, but you know, Orlando is pretty quick sometimes when it comes to drainage. Yeah. So, you know, I figured, you know, it wouldn't take long and she wasn't going to move in immediately anyways because she had an apartment that she had to fix up and move out of. So it was a for me, it was a deal on a silver platter for them. It's like you want to get rid of the house now. All right, You want to get a finance buyer? Good luck with that, because. Now you really had to fix it and now. You'd really have to fix it. Yeah. It's the same thing with sellers who try to sell you a house with, like, cloth wiring or poly pipes. You know, it's like, guys, no one's going to insure this, you know, that normal. And sure, this which means no one can finance it. You're not going to give it away cash because that means you're going to get undercut. So instead of spending well, I will say repainting is not cheap. It's like five grand cloth wiring is like $1,000 fix. All right. Yeah, it's not that bad unless you have to get a whole new panel and all that. And it's, you know, two grand. But I got to be more than an apartment. No bed. No, no. Because the plumbing part is tough. Depending on your house, like 3 hours old house, the plumbing was in the foundation. And I remember. See, I cut up to the slab. Yeah. So I remember when we were listing the house, I think it was like two days after, three days after one of the hot water pipes broke and I didn't live there, but my sisters did. And they said, this is how it happened. They were walking to the laundry room barefoot, right in front, the laundry room where the kitchen is, and they're like, they had the tiles really hot. Why is it so hot? And my dad keeps a are ranked like, guess what would kill you? And immediately you knew like, oh, damn frickin pipe just burst. And he just listed the $2.7 million house. But so yeah. When they cut the tile. Oh, yes. Oh, dude, it was like an operation. It was awesome. They, they cut the tile perfectly. No, no tiles around it would crack. Just a grout right by that. Well, it was. It was. Or is it big tile was tavira. I think it was. Travertine is really nice. Tile that you can't get anymore. Yeah. And you know his grout lines were pretty much nonexistent. He was like a smooth I gotcha. So luckily the Bulgarians man, they're they're good at what they do. The guy who did the floor and then we have somebody else do the plumbing. But the plumbing wasn't the hard part. The floor was the hard part. He came in before the plumbers to take the tile off and make sure that none of the other tiles around it broke because then you got to replace those. So perfectly took 111 tile out, found exactly where the leak was, which was golden chances right there. Like best luck you could have. And then he set it up like. Like they were doing heart surgery on the goddamn house. Like there was, you know, tarps all around it. There was one entrance and where it was because dust was going to go over when they start drilling in the foundation. Yeah. And I mean, it was fix. So how did he know that it was a spot before tearing up the foundation. Was. Just what? Well, it was the hot and cold. So I was like, you know what? Tiles were the hottest. Pretty. I mean, it's like playing Minesweeper. You. Know, He's like, I think this is going to be a really. Oh, yeah. So but then you had to replace the tile. He took the tile that he picked up, which was cracked. And fortunately, because, you know, you couldn't get into it any other way. And he brought it to all these different tile places to find one that would match because it didn't exist anymore. Luckily, it found one in like all I think only us would notice because people who bought it, no idea. They they didn't notice the tile difference at all. And I found out they tore up the house anyway. They got it anyway. They didn't know it at all, you know, so that that little tiny thing right there sucks. So anyways, we re pipe to go back to the point of this when you re pipe, you know you're that's the only issue. But nowadays they don't even, don't even deal with that. So if you're. Yeah. If the reason he had to fix that though was because he couldn't to re pipe that house would be in, it'd be probably $20,000 job. You know how many bedrooms. Uh four bedrooms, five. But then there's three bonus rooms or two bonus rooms. Yeah. There's does want of water in it though. One of them. Yeah. Because they have a bathroom in there. But you know in like homes, like a home like that where you don't have a lot of walls, There's a giant open space where you can just run the plumbing through the walls. No problem. But with this, you know, you can't run it through the walls and you can't run through the walls to the attic because that's, you know, where the hell up there at this house. Yeah. It had to be in the foundation. That was the only way they could do it. So instead of re piping, obviously it was cheaper to just fix it and suck it up with the tile and open it up and replace that one pipe. But nowadays, if you have if your plumbing is in the foundation, like I had one last year, that was they had polish pipes, not sure how we got it insured to be honest, but we got temporary insurance for 90 days. Cellar actually paid five grand in concessions for closing costs for this guy so that he could pay the money to replant. And we actually I think I got most of his closing costs cover I think only paid like a thousand bucks plus a down payment, which is pretty unheard of for a finance deal. Um, he yes. Or he responded when they re plumb his like I said, his was in the foundation. So what they do now is they'll cut the pipe, cap it off and they run what's called a I think it's pecs or flex pecs, pecs, pecs piping through the whole thing. And they just run it now. They just run it in the walls through the attic and comes down when when you need it. Yeah, that's, that's what we do. We just re plumbed our house for years ago. Mm. Yeah. It's now since you go to the attic when you turn the water on initially it's a really hot summer, huh. Oh yeah. Yeah. So, um. So yeah, these people, anyways, they didn't want to help us. They didn't want to fix the septic, so we canceled, you know? No, no hard feelings. Unfortunately, my buyer spent probably 1200 dollars in inspections, and we went through the whole. Plus, however much you spend the last season, a pretty. Disease and a pretty deep. Yes. Yes. And luckily, you know, we were able to cancel without any, you know, hard feelings or anything like that. They probably didn't like me too much. But whatever he's in, Stuart, I'm all the way up here in Orlando and never see that guy again until I run into him randomly. Oh, so, you. Know. Unfortunately, it is a small. Real estate is a small. World. Yeah, you'd be surprised trying not to make enemies, but it happens. So after that one, there's one more and this'll be quick. Because there was one problem that we discovered on the first day of inspection and we just said, Screw it, we're out. This one was a renovation and did our renovations. Are they like to cut corners. And they. Love cutting corners. Home flippers. I love saving $10. If they came to the issue with this one, it was simple. It's also a roof. It was just they did without a permit. And when the city inspector came out there to sign it off, you know, because it's actually pretty easy, believe it or not, like in, um, and on the first episode I mentioned this house, The and for those of you who listened to it, it was the house and the land where I met this client. You know, he flipped the home. He picked it up for cheap, did a whole renovation on it, and loves not using permits, even though we tell him all the time, use permits and he's not going to mind me telling him. That's because we pass his balls all the time for this. Um, he elected and his ultimate wisdom after we have gone through multiple deals with him and told him to pull permits, he liked it and his ultimate wisdom to put a roof on into land on a coastal county without pulling a permit. So then he goes to sell it and the appraisers like, Huh, this roof should be 25 years old. Doesn't look 25 years old. So he had to pay. I think it was like three grand or maybe 1500 bucks. It was more than a thousand bucks for sure to get a city inspector out there, get to rip up part of the roof to show him that everything was done right and then put it back him. So he did the roof himself? Yeah. Oh, he does most the work himself. Yeah. Like so this next house that we found also on Stuart, you know, the roof was just not permitted which again in my and we both agree I mean that's been the bar easy fix there's got to a city inspector out there to check it out in in this home the crawl space wasn't big enough for me to go in there and I wasn't you know a nice clothes on and I wasn't going to jump in an attic, crawl through insulation. I'll let somebody else do that in. The inspector didn't want to do it either because he was a bigger guy. So the only person that would do it was the city inspector. And we told the sellers like, you know, the problem we have is that there's no permit for this roof. We need you guys to just get it inspected by the city, open a permit, close to permit. Whole thing's gonna cost you $1,000. Maybe, you know, because the roofing company will eat most of that cost. City inspector comes out, goes in the crawl space. He's like they they re roofs but they didn't re roof And we're like, huh. And he starts showing us pictures of the inside and the decking. So for those again who don't know, decking on the roof is the plywood that's under the house wrap in the shingles. So you have the trusses and you have plywood on top of those, and then you have house wrap and then you have shingles. Right. All following the same steps. Right. So not only did they just take the shingles off and put the shingles on, they didn't do any of the decking rework. They didn't do any truss rework. And they were all blackened, rotted, like he he said that he was amazed that when he was walking on the roof before he came inside, that he didn't fall through like he's like I felt some soft spots. I thought it was weird. And then I went inside and realized, Oh, the whole thing is rotting. Okay, great. So, you know, again, when you go look out, when you go look at homes, you know, I crawl and attics, I do everything for the buyers that they're not willing to do it. Always check that out. They may say brand new, brand new roof 2023, you know, permitted and done. Oh, that's great. How's the inside look? Because if if your roof is rotting from the inside out, it doesn't matter if you have brand new shingles on there, you know, something may fall on your house. You we may we may have a hailstorm. Hail straight through that, you know. I mean, yeah, we saw that rainstorm last week. Baseball sized. Yeah. Yeah. Insane. Um, you know, so always check check small things out like this and that's, you know, bring it back to the first episode. That's always why I recommend getting an inspection and having having a professional represent you that is a contractor. And let's wrap it up with her house that she ended up buying. Did that go well or she how many of these houses? Oh. Yeah. So I love I love this client. We're actually we're still good friends. You know, we had a little hiatus after these experiences, and rightfully so. You know, her family was pissed at me and I don't blame them. And I mean. I did the best I could. Yeah. I mean, she wants to buy a house. I don't see we're going to say no. Yeah. I mean, yeah. And at this time it was peak and 2020. One we got in the second one, she wanted to buy another one. She likes it. Okay. For houses now that Exactly. Insulation as we brought it. So you didn't. Do anything wrong there. Yeah. I still take the blame as a as the agent and as the agent having to represent the buyer's best interest, which I was. It was still my fault for some things. And I fully accept that. You know, it's part of the learning process. But yeah, so she ended up not buying a house, period. Oh. So she's not happily ever after? No, no, unfortunately is not. I think maybe she ended up finding a for sale by owner that she bought from, um, probably like a year after this. All this nonsense. The. Which was recently actually. And you know, she's happy now and she was happy before but again she was a great client. She put a lot of trust in me and I appreciate her for that. And she also taught me some things too, you know, and those those interactions, especially if you're a realtor or if you're in the industry or your home buyer, you know, those interactions where you learn something from somebody who you're supposed to represent, you know, they they hit you, they hit you at home and you never forget them. And by the way, on last week's episode, we said we find out the information on that house. The house ended up sold eight months or nine months later with a different agent. Oh, different listing agent. Yep. It and from the pictures, it doesn't look like anything on the roof was changed. It looks like they just went through. Just as an investor probably. Yeah, it looks like. Yeah, it looks like they went through and they did re shingle but there was no permit for it and I checked the permit site. How much it is. So under what you had. Actually it's over more. We were under contract and I want to say like 235 to 45. That's over one. It's over to 58. That's 1058 cash. Yeah. So, you know, those people I'm sure will make a great Airbnb. God forbid her Category five hurricane comes in, they lose their whole roof. Um, yeah. So how did the $500 a day not go if you've gone through? So it looks like the sellers paid it but paid the fine and then they, I mean they must have. It's either that or I can't see it in the records that it, the county took over and sold it. I don't know but they. I think the roof, the messed up roof is still there. So yeah. We've driven by there. Yeah. It's still. There. I mean unless they took it down and put a new one those exactly the same. Yeah I know they didn't. Yeah. So what I go knock on their door. To find out. Yeah. So pretty much to bring it all to an end, you know. Great client had a great time, you know, it was a big learning learning experience for me. A half a year of learning experiences, to be honest, but ended up well. And, you know, now I force my clients to get inspections even if their investors get a three day inspection period just to just do a four point, which is the cheapest inspection you can do to see to see what you're getting into. You know, the four point is given the major things that you're going to be $80,000 or so, the roof can be a lot, whatever you want. AC You can be like. Oh yeah, Well, and then again, septic tanks, as we learned. Yeah, always you septic tank. Yep, yep. So that will conclude this real estate horror story. It wasn't I don't think it was as bad as the first one, but it was with the same clients. So we had to do a continuation to show you guys how that ended. And I think next week we will have a guest and it should might actually be my father, even though he he's been in the industry for about 30 years now. He owns plenty of properties all over the state of Florida. And he's got a long list of stories. So we're going to see what he brings to the table and he'll probably be a repeat guest on here. So subscribe for that and make sure to follow us. And we'll see you next week for the next episode of Real Estate Horror Stories.