if you have offered your service to repair, they cannot claim MONTHS later after it's resolved.

by giving legal letter, it's as good as back stabbing your offers. and if he wants you to take care for 7years, its as good as telling him you own the place for 7 years. means if he want to use, then he needs to pay you rentals as you build and maintain at your own costs. who is to guarantee you within these 7 years that lawyer won't damage "your" items?

BTW the same latent defect claim can be used against him as the defect might occur even before you started renovated your house.

latent defect
n. a hidden flaw, weakness or imperfection in an article which a seller knows about, but the buyer cannot discover by reasonable inspection. It includes a hidden defect in the title to land, such as an incorrect property description. Generally, this entitles the purchaser to get his/her money back (rescind the deal) or get a replacement without a defect on the basis of "implied" warranty of quality that a buyer could expect ("merchantability"). Even an "as is" purchase could be rescinded if it could be shown the seller knew of the flaw. (See: warranty, implied warranty, product liability)


this clause can only be used between seller and buyer. basically if this idiot lawyer neighbour uses this in court. he will be laughed at.