<prompt> Human: Hey everyone long time reader here! would like to respectfully ask your opinions on an issue my wife and I just ran into.We are buying a house and have already completed inspection and are negotiating some minor repairs to be done. There has been one sticking point, an issue with the faucet in the full bathroom in the basement. House was built about 11 years ago, and basement completely finished 4 years ago. The sellers say the faucet has had this issue for the entire time and they will not be repairing it. Fine. Our issue is that what the inspector who is not a licensed plumber says and what the sellers agent say directly contradicted each other. Our thought was just to try to get more info before we committed. We called the city to get the permits and surprise to us - there was none. Now the city? county? is looking into it and I understand there could be tax ramifications from this. Also, assuming the seller is not going to be too happy, not that that is a huge deal to us. We have 3 kids under 4 years old and spending about 340K on this house.Any thoughts about how we should proceed next? We are kind of at a loss. Our realtor just basically said well you guys just opened a huge can of worms.TLDR; inspection on house revealed plumbing issue, not getting straight answer from sellers thought they recongze the problem has been around for years, called city to get permits - no permits.  <response>: Unless you already have an emotional attachment to this house, or its a smokin deal; I personally would walk away from this one. 