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Re: Topic Change

Dec 10, 2004, 21:16

Zathrus

What many people don't realize when buying a home near a detention basin is that it is usually considered part of one of the lots. This means that the owner of the property is responsible for the appearance AND functionality of the basin. In 15 years when it is full of silt and needs to be dredged guess who gets to pay for it? I briefly looked at a new home that had a drainage pipe in it. There were a number of reasons I chose not to go with it (neighborhood, insanely steep slope of land, the minor nit that the builder violated the spec of several main trusses made from engineered lumber, the center area in the basement that had exposed ground and the builder refused to pour cement over it... little things like that), but that wasn't really one of them. There were easements on the property to grant the county access to the drainage, and I don't know that the owner would've been responsible for dredging, but they certainly would be for upkeep of the land around it. And if it did backup, who knows how long it would take the county to come out and fix it.

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