Agreed! Sorry to hear about all your troubles. I'd be very interested to hear how a legal inquiry would go. Around here there are full disclosure laws that would, I believe, hold the previous owner accountable for not disclosing such an obvious inadequacy. Can't say for certain as thankfully, I've never had to explore those laws.
I've always hated the idea of lawsuits and civil suits to solve verything but I have to admit, in this case, I'd be.... [just realized that any word I use here would be a bad pun about your situation
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