Sunday, March 8, 2009
Caveat emptor - "buyer beware"
This was a comment left by "Observing" after the last article on the Daily Herald website.
Is that really how Sugar Grove residents feel? Basically, too bad/so sad?
What should we have been aware of? Where did we go wrong? We had a home inspection. He did a very thorough job. The home inspector said our sump pump was "bone dry." The house passed the inspection with few items needing repair. The original owners fixed the minor repairs and we thought we had a solid house in our hands. This house was about 3 years old at the time. No sign of any kind of water issues inside or out. And at the time, no neighbors that we knew had any water issues either.
What should we have done or what did we need to consider? What did we need to BEWARE of?
And the people who bought their homes brand new? Wasn't the village supposed to ensure that everything here in Mallard Point was built to code? What should an individual home owner have done to make sure the village was doing their job? To make sure that their brand new house, assumedly approved of by the village, was "good to go?"
If the drainage system was, in fact, built to code, then maybe we would not be having these problems. If the pond was consistently maintained, maybe we would not be having these problems.
What good does saying "caveat emptor" do now? I guess, too bad/so sad. The trustees have to make sure the other residents are taken care of. Is Mallard Point, like another poster once said, the "red headed step child" of Sugar Grove?
The original article and the link is in the post below. Feel free to read the comments posted there.
Is that really how Sugar Grove residents feel? Basically, too bad/so sad?
What should we have been aware of? Where did we go wrong? We had a home inspection. He did a very thorough job. The home inspector said our sump pump was "bone dry." The house passed the inspection with few items needing repair. The original owners fixed the minor repairs and we thought we had a solid house in our hands. This house was about 3 years old at the time. No sign of any kind of water issues inside or out. And at the time, no neighbors that we knew had any water issues either.
What should we have done or what did we need to consider? What did we need to BEWARE of?
And the people who bought their homes brand new? Wasn't the village supposed to ensure that everything here in Mallard Point was built to code? What should an individual home owner have done to make sure the village was doing their job? To make sure that their brand new house, assumedly approved of by the village, was "good to go?"
If the drainage system was, in fact, built to code, then maybe we would not be having these problems. If the pond was consistently maintained, maybe we would not be having these problems.
What good does saying "caveat emptor" do now? I guess, too bad/so sad. The trustees have to make sure the other residents are taken care of. Is Mallard Point, like another poster once said, the "red headed step child" of Sugar Grove?
The original article and the link is in the post below. Feel free to read the comments posted there.
# posted by Julie @ 11:01 AM 
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