Nick PerryFounder and CEO of 7 Figure Cartel

Never Buy a House With This One Feature — It Could Cost You $40,000 and Insurance Won't Help

16 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise video, Nick Perry warns homebuyers about a hidden danger in many houses built between 1978 and 1995: polybutylene plumbing. He explains that the gray plastic pipes are chemically vulnerable to chlorine in tap water, which gradually erodes the pipe walls until they burst. When a pipe fails, water floods walls, ceilings, and slabs, leading to interior damage that can require around $40,000 in repairs—costs that most insurance policies do not cover. Perry emphasizes that many owners are unaware they have this feature, and he offers a call‑to‑action: viewers who cannot afford to replace the pipes can comment “flip” to receive guidance on selling the property.

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Never ever buy a house with this one feature because it'll cost you tens of thousands that your insurance won't cover either. What's worse is most people have this in their house without knowing because builders shoved them into millions of homes between 1978 and 1995. The feature is called polybutylene pipes. See, they're the gray plastic pipes made with molecules that are extremely sensitive to chlorine. The tap water running through them shaves layers off them until they burst, leading to flooding the inside your walls, your ceiling, and your slab, which which means you wake up in a flooded home and have to do $40,000 worth of repairs that your insurance won't cover. If you have a home like this but don't have enough to change out the pipes, comment "flip" and I'll show you how you can sell it.