Unless you can find documented proof that a structural engineer signed off on altering those trusses, then skip it.
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It can be fixed! Just drop the price some to cover the fixing!
See if you can get the seller to pay for a structural engineer of you/your niece's choosing to sign off on the trusses being cut.
Have a plumber price the polybutylene replacement and drop the asking price by that amount.
Make sure YOU/YOUR NIECE pay for the plumber. More likely to respond to any callbacks.
Thanks guys. thats about what i was expecting to hear. going to drive up in the morning to meet my sis and bil to look it over. 2 hr drive on a already busy day. what can you do, its family. let ya know what else i find wrong (shouldn't have to look to hard). thanks
I'd pass on it. If it was a flip then you know everything else that they touched is substandard.
And the truss thing? My neighbor bought the house across the street. Previous owner had cut trusses to install a pipe organ. It cost a LOT of money to get an engineer to put a stamp back on them. I call that house the money pit