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- Paris Earle and her husband bought an executed house, but the previous owners left them with almost $ 200,000 in repairs
- Earle believes that the owners of the past intentionally damaged the house before the bank took over
- Earle has shared updates on the house in Tiktok
Paris Earle and her husband never intended to buy a house executed.
Initially they planned to buy land and build a personalized house, but they quickly realized that they would have to overcome their budget. His real estate agent showed them some houses, and found exactly what they wanted: a large house with wooden floors and a pool. The only capture was that he had been in mortgage execution.
Earle, 31, speaks with people exclusively about all the ups and downs that came with the purchase of a house executed, like all the damages left by the previous owners.
«We enter and think: ‘This is executed. Are you sure?’ I was in a fantastic way, «Earle shares. «The more we walked, the more we noticed small things, but it felt cosmetics.»
«The floors were torn in the kitchen, but we replaced the floors in the house before. That is not much at all,» he continued. «We left that initial vision, and we loved it. We thought it had a lot of potential.»
The Earles made an offer, but the bank wanted a buyer to pay in cash and not move. The bank would not reveal the total reach of the necessary repairs in the house, and there was much interest in other parts. Like all other bidders, Earle and his family were overlooked.
A month later, the bank reopened the second round for the bidders, and Earle and her husband wanted to visit the house again. The couple knew well that the bank would not cover repair costs, but brought contractors to assess the damage.
The damage was more than they had initially anticipated. The electric lines had been cut, had damage to water, broken windows, destroyed floors, problems with the pool heater and a escape of appliances that was never solved.
Courtesy of Paris Earle
Earle believes that the previous owners «intentionally caused damage» to the house after learning that he was going to the mortgage execution so that «no one else could enjoy it.»
However, she and her husband still wanted the house and agreed a purchase price. They talked to the contractors and received offers, and gathered a price list to measure the cost of repairs and if they could «pay» it or not.
«Although we knew the scope of the damage, we did not know until after we had already accepted a purchase price. The bank was not reaching the information. They simply stayed with its point, ‘it’s how it is. We are not telling you anything.'»
Earle and her husband obtained an insurance for the house and discovered that it was the same company as the previous owners had used. With the help of the insurance company, he had a clearer idea of the scope of the damage by observing the previous claims. The real estate agent also obtained permits to help determine a timeline of the events to understand when part of the damage occurred.
Courtesy of Paris Earle
Earle then published a Tiktok on the house, which went viral, accumulating more than 1.1 million visits. He received many messages from people who claimed to have lived there or met someone who lived there. She ignored most messages, believing that they are scams or people looking for attention. However, one stood out for her, and turned out to be the people who sold the house to the owners before Earle.
«They showed me photos of them at home. They have been helpful and gave us an even narrower timeline than we thought about what happened,» says Ear him. «They have really been great, and they have given us their contact names, like their landscape.
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A contractor cited Ear him around $ 200,000 to repair the damage, but they are not in a hurry to fix everything at once.
«People asked if we were going to hold the previous owners responsible for any of the damages that were done before they own,» says Earle. «But we cannot. We buy it as it is, knowing that damage was made. If any position was pressed, that was between the bank that owned it at that time and the previous owners.»
Although he is not in contact with the previous owners, he hopes that «they have advanced with their lives» and «their lives are working exactly as they wanted.»
«What was done was done,» he shares. «We have no sick feelings, it is inconvenient for us, but we knew in what we were getting, so we have no bad will towards them. We are excited to make new memories and do our.»
