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Does responsibility for disclosure and repair of serious problems extend through multiple sales?

Let’s call the three successive owners Owners 1, 2 and 3. I’m assuming you’re Owner 3. You can review the disclosure by Owner 1 to Owner 2, but you have no claim against Owner 1 under the disclosure because you have no legal relationship with him. As we lawyers would say, you lack “contractual privity” with Owner 1. If Owner 2 kept the disclosure form, you can get it from him. If no one will give it to you voluntarily, you can get it several ways if you start a lawsuit. As for the...

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