§ 3305 Incumbrance Breach Damages

• •If someone sells you land but doesn't tell you about debts or problems tied to it, they broke a promise.
• •You can get back the money you spent to fix those hidden problems, but not more than what the land was worth when you bought it.
• •If the problem is ongoing (like yearly fees), you can only get back the interest on the money you spent, not the full amount.

You buy a house, but later find out the seller didn’t tell you about a $10,000 lien (a debt) on the property. You have to pay it off to keep the house.

The law says you can get back the $10,000 you spent, but only if it’s not more than the part of the house’s value that was affected by the lien. If the house was worth $100,000 and the lien was on half of it, you’d get up to $5,000 back.