Can I sell home without Smoke Detector? (Sacramento: apartment, to rent)

[vip1]

Hi,

I bought a property for flip and somehow, my contractor forget to install Smoke Detector in the home. Now question,

1. Is it require to have smoke Detector in the home? I bought it from Bank and there was no smoke detector. This property build in 1960.

2. Is it compulsory to give Seller's Disclousers? I bought it from Bank and Bank didn't give any disclosure to me. Just checking the possibility as am thinking of buying property far from my home town and I may not be able to see the property at all before fix-up. Just checking.

[ferretkona]

Smoke detecters cost $5 at Home Depot, why cheap out?

[futbol]

If you did any work on the house over a certain value I think you have to smoke detectors in every room. Our contractor told us this after we put a new roof on our house several years back. Yes, smoke detectors are cheap.

There is also a new law that every house must have a carbon monoxide detector. I have yet to re-install mine because of false positives.

[Cardiff Kook]

lol, people who flip kind of enrage me. no offense but this nonsense is part of the reason we got into this mess to begin with. i hate seeing that a house was bought last month and is now being resold for 90k more than it was just bought for

i don't know the answer to your question though, sorry

[DMenscha]

Smoke detectors and Carbon Monoxide detectors (as of July 1, 2011) are REQUIRED by the state of CA. The banks agent should have had the detectors installed, banks are NOT exempted from the requirement.

The FAQ is here: http://osfm.fire.ca.gov/strucfireeng...20Monoxide.pdf

[vip1]

It's not a question of Money. Property is too far from my Home Town and now contractor is not ready to go there. Long story. Remodeling is not that easy job. Am thinking of disclosing this when I put it in the market. I don't have any plan to rent it.

[vip1]

To be honest, many times flip homes are lot better as it comes with lot of good things. And it's buyer's responsibility to have proper home inspection. It's not fair to save money on those things.

[hitman619]

Yes they are required along with carbon monoxide detectors.
They are really easy to install (just a screwdriver and 5 mins of your time)
Either do it now Do or get stuck doing it before closing!

[earlyretirement]

Originally Posted by GMUAlum08

lol, people who flip kind of enrage me. no offense but this nonsense is part of the reason we got into this mess to begin with. i hate seeing that a house was bought last month and is now being resold for 90k more than it was just bought for

i don't know the answer to your question though, sorry

I don't have any problem at all with today's flippers. Most of them these days are buying their flip homes with cash. That was quite different than during the bubble years. Yes, during the bubble years, many flippers were morons but more so the banks and finance companies were at fault for allowing these people to take on such leverage.

All the power to the flippers if they can get what they are asking. I have a good friend that is flipping houses and apartment buildings in Sacramento and making a killing. He is going in with cash and flipping. One building he just bought, someone offered him $200,000 more than he paid just a few weeks after he bought it. So you can't fault these guys if they can get it....

[photo4fun]

Originally Posted by earlyretirement

i don't have any problem at all with today's flippers. Most of them these days are buying their flip homes with cash. That was quite different than during the bubble years. Yes, during the bubble years, many flippers were morons but more so the banks and finance companies were at fault for allowing these people to take on such leverage.

All the power to the flippers if they can get what they are asking. I have a good friend that is flipping houses and apartment buildings in sacramento and making a killing. He is going in with cash and flipping. One building he just bought, someone offered him $200,000 more than he paid just a few weeks after he bought it. So you can't fault these guys if they can get it....

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