# Warranty tail

A term used when buying roofing.

Multi-year workmanship warranties transfer whole in a stock sale, and only by choice in an asset sale.

It is inherited liability, and it arrives without a schedule. Callbacks and leak claims on work done years before closing land on the new owner regardless of who was on the roof, so ask for the callback history, the average cost of one, and how many jobs are still inside their warranty period. Where the number is material, it belongs in the price or in an escrow rather than in an assurance that the work was good.

Part of: Buying a Roofing Company (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-roofing-company)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-roofing-company/terms/warranty-tail
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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