Buyer discovered extensive rot beneath a first-floor bathroom 4 months after closing. The contract excluded non-conformity liability for items “not visible without demolition”. Buyer bore the full ¥3.2M repair cost. Lesson: a pre-signing inspection focused on plumbing joins and subfloor humidity would have caught it.
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