Yikes.

I'm so sorry to hear your new neighbor is so irresponsible. It's this type of flipper that gives the whole industry a bad name and there are plenty of the bad one's out there from what I have seen. :(

I don't get how the inspector is turning a blind eye to these improvements. They sound seriously deficient.

The reason I wouldn't want to purchase a home that had been flipped!

I think a lot of inspections are a joke. I had to have one when I had windows installed and was home at the appointed time. There was some other work being done on my house at the time the inspector arrived. He drove in, sat in the car for a while then left. Someone else I know had their new home sinking with failed footings - probably same inspector never got out of the car to take a closer look.

I too would never buy a flipped house for these reasons - lipstick on a pig.

I have a friend who lives next door to a home that sat vacant for over a year. She said part of the roof caved in and water and animals had been living in there -- plus the pool was unattended. It finally went into foreclosure and she was hopeful someone would come gut or tear it down. Instead, the buyers started on a cut corners flip. Took a while and then sat -- over a year total before it went on the market this fall. Where it is listed above any comps for the neighborhood. I suspect it may go into foreclosure again -- in which case the lender may not know of the hidden problems either. Scary what some folks will do.

"Our inspector" meaning the guy from city who checks the work at ea. stage (before things get covered up)? They do have. permit, correct? How long has this been going on - depending on your city codes it could be they wouldnt be allowed to have a yard that's full of trash for months on end. That's why God made dumpsters.

Find out who the inspector reports to and email that person. It's the mayor in our city. Any photos over the fence? :)

If any potential buyers happen to stop by your house to chat before they make an offer, please tell them what you wrote here. Maybe you should be out in the front yard "gardening" if they have an open house! I would rather the flipper suffer than an unsuspecting nice family.

How awful worthy. It's that kind of flipping that ruins it for those that do a good job.

now I'm truly shocked..one thing is to read how few people X behave with horrid irresponsibility..another thing is to learn they're been "officially" taught it's a way to behave and comduct their businesses. Not to mention it can literally affect somebody's health, somebody's life. I was brought up to never tell on people; in such cases I very well see myself making an exception on my rules.

OP, how do you know that the inspector signed off on everything?

I'd document with pictures.

A house up the street from me was a flip. I went to the estate sale they had in that house, and it was very clear that the basement had a LOT of problems with water. These were covered up by the flippers. Everything they did in that house was cosmetic and cheap. And they sold it for TWICE what they paid for it - a price that was at least $150,000-200,000 over comparable houses in the neighborhood. Two doctors from Atlanta bought it - she was pregnant, they had just finished their residencies and had new jobs - didn't want to have to do anything, and they thought it was a "deal" as it was so much less than Atlanta prices. For the next 3 years, I saw plumbing/electrician trucks there weekly.

I looked at a house in bad condition once - it stunk of animal urine. Its a bad sign when realtor showing it says "You go inside, Ill wait out here."

Later I looked at it after the flipper was done with it and had an open house - there was strong odor of recently applied floor finish..... AND, along with that I could still smell the unmistakeable stink of animal urine. Unless you knew it was there, you might think it was just the smell of the floor finish since that was so strong. Unlike electrical, construction &plumbing errors, that is one kind of problem you just cant fix. Buyer beware!

stunk of animal urine

A renovator/real estate agent friend bought a home where a section of the basement floor had been saturated with human waste, as she pointed it out on the house tour.She was able to deodourize the concrete with huge amounts of Deetol. But that's for another thread....