Defects, Disclosure and Caveat Emptor #430
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By Jennifer CleeB.A., LL.B. It’s trite law that a seller and a listing REALTOR® have a duty to disclose known material latent defects, but not patent defects. Sometimes the distinction as to what constitutes a patent defect or a latent defect isn’t clear. Take a sump pump in the crawl space, for instance. Is it …