I was responding to the fact that many on the sinkhole thread had said they didn't know when they bought and didn't get the insurance. Everybody knows about Calif earthquakes but sinkholes in Fla don't make the national news that I can remember.
Also sinkholes aside if there is no disclosure statement required in FLA even with the underlying liablility existing in th law people have to be extra careful when buying. That is all I was saying. Previous extensive termite damage, a fire that may have effected the loadbearing parts of the home. Radon etc. additions without building permits, these are all things I have run into in our moves around the country that the inspectors didn't pick up as they were not visable. A disclosure statement has been an ademdum to every contract I have had in reacent years (its standard practice in WA and many other states now) and it made me feel alot better. The realators in some states have added it to limit their liability.
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