Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New Jersey

Any repairs that were required and that seller agreed to do should have been completed before you made settlement. If you had wanted, you probably could have refused to settle when the seller refused to install a french drain, if that was required by the inspection report. If you accepted the deed and closed on the house without repairs completed, you are probably too late to do anything about it.

Still, you could try to ask the seller.

The problem is that you were aware of the water/basement issues, so it's not as if anything had been hidden from you.

THIS RESPONSE IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, SINCE I DO NOT HAVE ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED, AND I DO NOT HAVE A REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT WITH YOU.

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