One of the many many disclosures in a real estate transaction is the errant golf ball disclosure. In researching how this particular disclosure came to be I cam across an interesting story.
It seems one man put a putting green in his backyard next to the golf course so he could use it for practice every morning. One morning he woke up and not knowing his little Schipperke dog had got out and retrieved a ball from the golf course, slipped on it and landed face down with his Jimmy Duante type nose in his putting hole. He was stuck. The paramedics who came to get him out discovered he had broken his leg. They put him on a stretcher and got to laughing so hard they dropped him and and he broke his arm and his nose. By the time he got to the hospital he was ready to sue the golf course but a quick call to his lawyer told him that it wasn’t and errant golf ball but an errant dog who had a nose for getting into trouble. Some days go like that but it is still better to disclose if you question whether you should. Come to think of it , why doesn’t a Schipperke dog come with a disclosure label attached.
