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JoshS
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Please help me out.
My G/F and I purchased a peice of property in July of 2001. We bought a modular home and put it on the property. Our property had a slight drainage problem when we bought it (which the seller did not inform us of either until after we had already bought the land). The proplem wasn`t too bad and we had bought several loads of topsoil and it seemed to be helping. In September of 2001,the county highway dept. came and re-dug the ditches. The problem is they stopped at our property line right in front of a crossdrain that runs under the road directly onto our property. Now our drainage problem has turned into a flooding problem. If it rains for over 2 hours at a time,I cannot even use half my driveway. The flooding is so bad sometimes that we can`t even wash our clothes because it backs the septic system up so much that it doesn`t even drain out of the house.
I have tried talking to the county raod superintendent and it has done no good. All they will tell me is that the land was this way when we bought it and that it s our problem
The problem could be fixed with about 25 loads of dirt,but dirt is outragous and we really don`t have $2,000 to spend on dirt.
Do I have any recourse in this or am I just screwed ???
Any advice will be greatly appericated.
Thanks,
Josh
BTW,I`m located in Tennessee
My G/F and I purchased a peice of property in July of 2001. We bought a modular home and put it on the property. Our property had a slight drainage problem when we bought it (which the seller did not inform us of either until after we had already bought the land). The proplem wasn`t too bad and we had bought several loads of topsoil and it seemed to be helping. In September of 2001,the county highway dept. came and re-dug the ditches. The problem is they stopped at our property line right in front of a crossdrain that runs under the road directly onto our property. Now our drainage problem has turned into a flooding problem. If it rains for over 2 hours at a time,I cannot even use half my driveway. The flooding is so bad sometimes that we can`t even wash our clothes because it backs the septic system up so much that it doesn`t even drain out of the house.
I have tried talking to the county raod superintendent and it has done no good. All they will tell me is that the land was this way when we bought it and that it s our problem
The problem could be fixed with about 25 loads of dirt,but dirt is outragous and we really don`t have $2,000 to spend on dirt.
Do I have any recourse in this or am I just screwed ???
Any advice will be greatly appericated.
Thanks,
Josh
BTW,I`m located in Tennessee