Hello! We were dumb and bought a house long distance, husband is military and I was 8 months pregnant, we also have a toddler dog and cat and didn’t want to spend a fortune on a temp rental or an apartment waiting 3-6 months for a house on base (we have learned our lesson don’t be mean plz). Our realtor was great and is my husbands now coworker, he did FaceTime several times, walked around the house for us, and was very up front and honest with everything. A year later now, our basement has flooded from storms several times, which we later found mold & the downstairs shower drain was just a pipe through the drain hole (not sealed, you can see right past the pipe to the floor, just covered by the drain cover) that was never caught or mentioned which flooded the entire area around the bottom of the shower and caused mold as well. To be quite honest I have a feeling the selling agent (who was also the owner) hid those things and did the repair request the very bare minimum and I feel like we got completely screwed over 🫩 there was water damage in the bathroom on the inspection and so we had a request to repair the issue… but the issue is the one that I found about the drain. So all they did was put some more drywall in and didn’t even mess with the drain, which we later discovered. Where it floods in another room of the basement is a window and foundation crack (which was behind drywall that ended up moldy so it was removed) & you can tell the window has been caulked and foundation crack sealed before & that was never even brought up. Any advice? Just feel taken advantage of as young first time homeowners & feel like we’re going to end up losing a ton of money because of this house:/

Our home has been on the market for a month, in great condition and newly updated. We haven't had a single contract and only 2 showings. We live in the country so it's to be expected that it's slower but at this point there have been some disappointments with our realtor and we're wondering if we should fire him and look for someone new. We discover that our home wasn't showing up on zillow for our area and once we told our agent our concerns he looked into it and it was put in the wrong area on the mls system 🙃. He has a full time job outside of being an agent so we just aren't sure this is a priority for him. He has done one open house and he announced it 2 days before and only 2 couples showed. We've received no feed back from anyone on what we can do better and we have to get out from under this house. We want to be fair. Thoughts?