What are my rights regarding the sale of a house?

In April we put our house up for sale b/c we were relocating for jobs out of state. While we were getting the house ready, our window started to leak. We DISCLOSED this information on the sale / disclosure form and also noted we were “talking to a contractor”. A friend of our neighbor was a contractor, came out, looked, couldn’t find anything wrong with it – pulled off the siding and found something that needed to be caulked. He caulked it and we had no more leak. This was mid April. It rained and the window didn’t leak again. We sold the house – they paid for a home inspector to come look at it – the house passed inspection – they ASKED for nothing – no guantee, no warranty not even proof it was fixed. We put off settlement to the end of may due to logistics assoc’d with our move and all the rain we had it never leaked again.

Fast fwd to August – rements of a tropical storm came thru with heavy rains and
the window leaked – this was AUGUST – THREE months after we moved out. Now mind you – it rained in Philadelphia prior to august. ANyway – the homeowners are coming after us to pay for the window to be fixed.

What are our rights – we disclosed the info and had it fixed to our knowlegde. How are we to know it’s not a new leak? Also – it is now October 30th and they haven’t had it fixed and it continues to leak and the price has tripled since they first contacted us. How are we to know that all the damage now is not from the window being unfixed all this time?

We are going to have to get a lawyer, but before we spend big bucks, i am curious to know if we have a case here? I mean – shouldn’t they be going after their inspector for not catching it – especially when they knew there was once a leak? I mean what’s next? Are they going to sue us if a window breaks?

Sorry if this runs on!
Thanks for taking the time to answer me. I just feel bad – guilty, you know? We did offer them 500 bucks as a show of good faith back when all this started and the repairs were 600 bucks but they refused it. They bought the house for their 20 year old daughter so they wouldn’t have to pay for her dorm for college – so of course i assume they have a lawyer on retainer. I got a very threatening email from the lady – but the house is in my fiance’s name – mine wasn’t on a single thing. Ugh – it’s so frustrating. But thank you all for taking the time to answer me.