We've been looking at houses for several months now. We found one that was possibly THE house for us. We asked the Realtor to find out how old the roof was and how many layers of shingles were up there. Looked like maybe three layers. The Realtor got back with us the next day. He explained: "The home owners are elderly and they don't remember how old the roof is."

He couldn't even give us a rough estimate, like within 5 yrs! Couldn't remember how many layers of shingles, either! No, they didn't fill out the discloser statement. They started to, but, he explained, "got overwhelmed."

Maybe this isn't the house for us after all.