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> I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
>
> Others have suggested getting a lawyer, which I think is the best
> idea, but if you
> really can't, I would get Nolo Press's catalog and buy a couple of
> books. They
> publish self-help legal books. You are going to need a lot of help.
>
> You seem to think that because your house has a bug infestation, you
> can
> win a lawsuit against your real estate agent. I do not understand
> why. You
> knew the house was infested before you bought it. My question is: why
> did
> you think it was "bug free". Did you have a pest person inspect it?
> Unless
> the real estate agent knew or should have known about the dog food or
> about
> not "bug free", I think you will loose.
>
> Put simply:
> It is the agent's job to know abou the previous infestation, which he
> did, and you did!.
> It is the pest person's job to get rid of the pests, which he did not.
> It is the inspector's job to detect that the house still has bugs,
> which he did not.
> Therefore, I would think the second two people make much better law
> suit targets.
>
> Although, in truth, it sounds to me like the house might have been bug
> free at
> specific times, but that all that dog food in the wall just attracted
> a new infestation.
> I don't know if you could sue the previous owner for leaving all that
> dog food there.
> Or how you figure out which previous owner did that.
>
> Joshua Levy
> Not a lawyer; go sue someone else.