In the end he is using the $50k expense as an argument for renting instead of buying.<p>I am wondering, if you were to rent, would your landlord actually cover this? Sounds like that would be equally hard as claiming it on insurance or previous owner of house. I can imagine the response being something along &quot;our janitor was qualified to clean it up and you shouldn&#x27;t have called haz team&quot; or simply that the leak wasn&#x27;t their fault. On the other hand you can easily bail out and just rent another place, unless the queue to get a rental is 3years+ in your city.