Am I still responsable for a window that I broke if the homeowners sold their house?
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Am I still responsable for a window that I broke if the homeowners sold their house?
I broke a window while cutting the grass. I asked the neighbor for an estimate and offered to pay for the window. It has now been over a year, I never got the estimate and home has been sold. Does my responsbility for window transfer over to new owners?
Asked on August 22, 2012 under Real Estate Law, Ohio
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Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
If you broke the window of an adjoining house while you were mowing the lawn and the owner at the time of the breaking has not asked you to pay for the broken window and the home has been subsequently sold, then you have no obligation to pay for the window to the new owner unless the former owner assigned a property damage claim to the new owner in writing for such.
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