I agree wholeheartedly , its not just mech that can catch you out , about 25 years ago I was looking at buying an executive twin , in france . Luckily I engaged the services of a very experienced senior maintenance engineer, to accompany me . To cut a long story short he detected fraudulent entries in maintenance records , and a lot more, and both UK and French CAA got involved, the aircraft itself ending up being cut up for scrap
a lucky escape
for me .