Did it end up costing you money to get that resolved? It drives me crazy that with housing contracts, they protect essentially everyone except the buyer. It's never anyone else's problem because of the contract somehow covering them (lawyers, agents, sellers, etc.), but somehow, the language never quite covers buyers.
We purchased a house, and within just days, the basement flooded because cleaning wipes were flushed down the toilet by the prior owner, clogging the system. So the sellers knew about the flooding or they flushed the stuff while moving out. It wasn't covered under any clause by interpretation, although it should have been by literal reading of the contract. Seller's can basically do whatever they want besides burn the house down.
We purchased a house, and within just days, the basement flooded because cleaning wipes were flushed down the toilet by the prior owner, clogging the system. So the sellers knew about the flooding or they flushed the stuff while moving out. It wasn't covered under any clause by interpretation, although it should have been by literal reading of the contract. Seller's can basically do whatever they want besides burn the house down.