$11,000 is a rough way to learn that your uncle's advice came with a free basement pool. Gotta love how "fresh paint" in a listing is basically a warning label in disguise. Sellers who slap paint over water damage know exactly what they're doing, and proving they knew it is the hard part. You can try small claims or a lawyer, but honestly the paper trail on a cover-up is usually thin, so don't hold your breath. Next time that uncle offers advice, maybe ask him to chip in for the sump pump.

the whole fix being "did you save" is so real, bet half of us skip ctrl+s every single time

Something like this happened to a buddy of mine back in college. He was messing around with a while loop for a class project and forgot to update his counter variable inside the loop. That thing ran for a solid two minutes printing the same line while his laptop fan spun up like a jet engine. He freaked out and just slammed the power button because he thought he broke something. Turned out he just had to hit Ctrl+C, which is way easier than a hard shutdown. The colon thing you ran into is a classic too, that little typo can make Python think you want a whole block of code when you really just want one line. Reading the error message first saves so much drama, but honestly almost nobody does that when they are starting out.