Real Estate Agent's Sunday Showing Turns Into Monday Morning Nightmare

A Georgia homeowner is reeling after what they claim is a real estate agent's blunder that left their house flooded and their wallet hurting.

In a post on Reddit, user Ok_Kaleidoscope wrote that they came home to find their place looking like a water park after an agent showed the house.

The agent cranked the AC to 62 degrees on a Georgia summer day. The extreme cold caused so much condensation that it filled the pans with water and spilled out, soaking carpets, ruining floors, leaking through the ceiling, and leaving a repair bill that could buy a small car.

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The homeowner says they've got proof the agent was the last one in the house, but the agent is playing dumb. Now, Ok_Kaleidoscope is stuck with a messed-up house and a huge headache.

"It's going to be at least $20K in repairs, and I'm now stuck with a house I can't sell until the repairs are made," Ok_Kaleidoscope wrote.

The post sparked a conversation about who was at fault, and many of those who responded said that filing a lawsuit would be futile because the pan overflowing was the result of a malfunction of a switch that would cause the unit to shutdown until the pan drains through a pipe that channels the water out of the house.

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 "That pipe was clogged," wrote Intelligent-Bat1724. "Realtor's attorney will claim their client cannot be held responsible for malfunctions of poorly maintained equipment."

Intelligent-Bat1724 also noted that although the homeowner said the air conditioning was turned off, every homeowner's insurance policy includes a provision that they must maintain normal climate control at all times.

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"By turning off the system, the homeowner breached that provision," wrote Intelligent-Bat1724, a mitigation department manager in the restoration industry. "Some insurance carriers may deny a claim for damages sustained as a result of this.

Although some Reddit users suggested filing a claim through their homeowner’s insurance, others warned that it could result in the company dropping their coverage.

"For every story like yours, I have two dozen who got canceled the next time their policy was up for renewal following a claim," Jenikovista responded to a poster whose guesthouse caught fire and was repaired through an insurance claim.

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