What If You Don’t Disclose a Murder That Happened In The Property You’re Selling

So if you’re a homeowner here in the state of California and you’re thinking about selling your house, one of the pieces of advice I give to my friends and family, whenever you’re going to sell a piece of property, when in doubt, disclose it. Because, for example, if you had a water intrusion issue like four years ago but you think it was fixed, but you’re not 100 percent sure, just disclose it.

If you think that there’s an issue with the roof or the roof might have a leak. Disclose it. If there is any possibility of something that might impact the value of the property, it’s better to disclose it up front because any potential buyer is going to fall in love with the property, even most likely based on these disclosures.

However, if you don’t disclose it, they buy the property and then they find out you did disclose something. Then they might have buyer’s remorse, and they might hire an attorney to come after you for the diminished value or the repairs that are necessary that need to be made to get the house to the place they thought they were buying it.

So again, when in doubt, disclose things because you’re protecting yourself from future litigation.