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sdgrrl, there are a lot of people with unrealistic prices/ expectations and won’t sell unless they can get what they want. we put in several offers last year that the owners were offended by, and ultimately pulled their houses off the market. The thing is, in 2 instances, they wanted to move elsewhere, so I have no idea if they are putting that on hold or not. The homes that are stagnating are not in great condition, do not have a great flow/layout, nor great lot sizes / streets for the prices they are asking. I think its actually quite simple. The houses that are quality at the right price are moving, the others are not attractive in this market because people can’t justify having to settle to that extent and pay that much $$

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has anyone read about the timeline of events, how soon after the earthquake hit did the tsunami make landfall? i wonder how long people had to flee to higher ground? the older man who was found 10mi out in the ocean floating on apart of his roof mentioned he and his wife went back to their house to retrieve belongings.

if they had tsunami alarms sounding and these people had practiced all these drills, why would you go back to your house when its on the coast?

in 1 video i watched, i heard a siren and announcements, but interestingly the siren didn’t continue on, i wonder if it was a tsunami warning. i watched a vidoe where people are watching the water come in from higher ground and just in front of them, people are walking slowly while the water is coming very rapidly. some people start running at the last minute and the video doesn’t show it, but i believe those people tragically were swept up in the waves. its all heartbreaking to watch

will people here evacuate immediately after a large earthquake off the coast first hits? it would seem every second counts, leave everything behind and just get in the car and start driving

[zzz]

has anyone read about the timeline of events, how soon after the earthquake hit did the tsunami make landfall? i wonder how long people had to flee to higher ground? the older man who was found 10mi out in the ocean floating on apart of his roof mentioned he and his wife went back to their house to retrieve belongings.

if they had tsunami alarms sounding and these people had practiced all these drills, why would you go back to your house when its on the coast?

in 1 video i watched, i heard a siren and announcements, but interestingly the siren didn’t continue on, i wonder if it was a tsunami warning. i watched a vidoe where people are watching the water come in from higher ground and just in front of them, people are walking slowly while the water is coming very rapidly. some people start running at the last minute and the video doesn’t show it, but i believe those people tragically were swept up in the waves. its all heartbreaking to watch

will people here evacuate immediately after a large earthquake off the coast first hits? it would seem every second counts, leave everything behind and just get in the car and start driving

[zzz]

has anyone read about the timeline of events, how soon after the earthquake hit did the tsunami make landfall? i wonder how long people had to flee to higher ground? the older man who was found 10mi out in the ocean floating on apart of his roof mentioned he and his wife went back to their house to retrieve belongings.

if they had tsunami alarms sounding and these people had practiced all these drills, why would you go back to your house when its on the coast?

in 1 video i watched, i heard a siren and announcements, but interestingly the siren didn’t continue on, i wonder if it was a tsunami warning. i watched a vidoe where people are watching the water come in from higher ground and just in front of them, people are walking slowly while the water is coming very rapidly. some people start running at the last minute and the video doesn’t show it, but i believe those people tragically were swept up in the waves. its all heartbreaking to watch

will people here evacuate immediately after a large earthquake off the coast first hits? it would seem every second counts, leave everything behind and just get in the car and start driving

[zzz]

has anyone read about the timeline of events, how soon after the earthquake hit did the tsunami make landfall? i wonder how long people had to flee to higher ground? the older man who was found 10mi out in the ocean floating on apart of his roof mentioned he and his wife went back to their house to retrieve belongings.

if they had tsunami alarms sounding and these people had practiced all these drills, why would you go back to your house when its on the coast?

in 1 video i watched, i heard a siren and announcements, but interestingly the siren didn’t continue on, i wonder if it was a tsunami warning. i watched a vidoe where people are watching the water come in from higher ground and just in front of them, people are walking slowly while the water is coming very rapidly. some people start running at the last minute and the video doesn’t show it, but i believe those people tragically were swept up in the waves. its all heartbreaking to watch

will people here evacuate immediately after a large earthquake off the coast first hits? it would seem every second counts, leave everything behind and just get in the car and start driving

[zzz]

has anyone read about the timeline of events, how soon after the earthquake hit did the tsunami make landfall? i wonder how long people had to flee to higher ground? the older man who was found 10mi out in the ocean floating on apart of his roof mentioned he and his wife went back to their house to retrieve belongings.

if they had tsunami alarms sounding and these people had practiced all these drills, why would you go back to your house when its on the coast?

in 1 video i watched, i heard a siren and announcements, but interestingly the siren didn’t continue on, i wonder if it was a tsunami warning. i watched a vidoe where people are watching the water come in from higher ground and just in front of them, people are walking slowly while the water is coming very rapidly. some people start running at the last minute and the video doesn’t show it, but i believe those people tragically were swept up in the waves. its all heartbreaking to watch

will people here evacuate immediately after a large earthquake off the coast first hits? it would seem every second counts, leave everything behind and just get in the car and start driving

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SD Realtor- I agree with you that there are many families who already scrimp, save and still barely scrape by and have 0 to little modern luxuries. There ALWAYS will be folks who live marginally, inflation or not, they are folks who works 2 or 3 jobs, to feed their children, and often their extended families. However, there are a LOT of these marginal families who need to make better choices, but often lack the skills needed to do so.

You are wrong about the middle class having worst eating habits, not that the middle class doesn’t overeat or choose very poorly. The poorest in this country are the most obese, from the NYT article referenced below: “Seven of the 10 states with the highest poverty levels are also among the 10 states with the highest obesity rates.”

http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger&obesity.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5576/obesity_and_poverty_the_poorest_of.html?cat=51
http://scienceblog.com/14046/correlation-between-obesity-and-poverty-healthy-people-2010-should-increase-attention-on-those-in-poverty/

There are hundreds if not thousands of other articles if you just google poverty and obesity.

You said you DONT know these poor people yourself, what are you doing to help them? I find it ironic you are calling other people elitist on this board.

There are a lot of other trends that come with those who are poor, disadvantaged that leads them to mismanage what money they do have. Many of these poor families lack education, do not understand nutrition, they do not value education for their children, do not value exercise, and they do not know how to manage finances. This cycle repeats itself generation after generation.

I DO know these poor people, I volunteer to help children and families in these situations and the trends I presented above are not anecdotal, there are many many statistics to back this up. In MH, just a few houses down from us, the original home that never got rebuilt/remodeled has housed the same family, many generations of Mexicans for over 30 years. There are12 people living in 800 sq ft. 2 grandparents in their 50s, their 3 kids (2 daughters, 1 son). The 2 daughters have 2 small children + their husbands who had just gotten out of jail. Plus one kid they took in off the streets. The 2 parents work, the 2 daughters do not, and their husbands had temporary work ( whatever they could pick up). The 2 young men work in odd jobs or in minimum wage jobs when they can find it or get hired, but in this economy, they have been let go or had hours cut. The 2 young men both graduated from HS but were not literate – they could not fill out a job application without someone’s help. These men are underemployed but also lack skills to find jobs. They do not know how to use computers or the internet proficiently, nor have one at home. They barely speak English fluently.

The daughters /husband/2kids each received welfare benefits.

The 1 son who we befriended and would ask us for advice, help, guidance, would often tell us how they barely scraped by to buy food. Here is what we observed:

–They All had cell phones
–They also pay for a home phone- I asked the son why they had a home phone? Answer: we’ve always had it, but I should ask my parents.
–They buy alcohol – we would see recycling bags filled with beer cans/ liquor bottles
–They pay for cable TV
–They have nice clothes / sneakers
–They have high fat diets- a lot of Mexican food, a lot of pizza, a lot of prepackaged food. The 3 woman of the house are obese

Another family we know – when they are making money working in construction, they SPEND it, they do not save. Now they are unemployed. They have 2 PS3s and loads of games – 1 for the adults, 1 for the kids. They have iPhones, they have cable TV, they drive 30k gas guzzling cars that get 8mpg and then cannot afford to put gas in these cars. They are on welfare. They are obese

These are just 2 families, but I observe these same things firsthand repeated over and over.

We have a friend who is an economics teacher in a poor farming community in Northern CA. He tries to teach his kids about diet, exercise and money. They are kids who are POOR, but have ipods, Xbox’s or PS3s and their families buy cable. Their families have no value for exercise, or necessarily education, they just want their kids working so they have one less mouth to feed. We live in a world now where if kids, even very poor ones don’t have some of these toys, its like they are being abused.

What we need is a better WELFARE system in providing aid that obligates them to go to classes on parenting, diet, budgeting/credit cards/ finances.

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SD Realtor- I agree with you that there are many families who already scrimp, save and still barely scrape by and have 0 to little modern luxuries. There ALWAYS will be folks who live marginally, inflation or not, they are folks who works 2 or 3 jobs, to feed their children, and often their extended families. However, there are a LOT of these marginal families who need to make better choices, but often lack the skills needed to do so.

You are wrong about the middle class having worst eating habits, not that the middle class doesn’t overeat or choose very poorly. The poorest in this country are the most obese, from the NYT article referenced below: “Seven of the 10 states with the highest poverty levels are also among the 10 states with the highest obesity rates.”

http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger&obesity.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5576/obesity_and_poverty_the_poorest_of.html?cat=51
http://scienceblog.com/14046/correlation-between-obesity-and-poverty-healthy-people-2010-should-increase-attention-on-those-in-poverty/

There are hundreds if not thousands of other articles if you just google poverty and obesity.

You said you DONT know these poor people yourself, what are you doing to help them? I find it ironic you are calling other people elitist on this board.

There are a lot of other trends that come with those who are poor, disadvantaged that leads them to mismanage what money they do have. Many of these poor families lack education, do not understand nutrition, they do not value education for their children, do not value exercise, and they do not know how to manage finances. This cycle repeats itself generation after generation.

I DO know these poor people, I volunteer to help children and families in these situations and the trends I presented above are not anecdotal, there are many many statistics to back this up. In MH, just a few houses down from us, the original home that never got rebuilt/remodeled has housed the same family, many generations of Mexicans for over 30 years. There are12 people living in 800 sq ft. 2 grandparents in their 50s, their 3 kids (2 daughters, 1 son). The 2 daughters have 2 small children + their husbands who had just gotten out of jail. Plus one kid they took in off the streets. The 2 parents work, the 2 daughters do not, and their husbands had temporary work ( whatever they could pick up). The 2 young men work in odd jobs or in minimum wage jobs when they can find it or get hired, but in this economy, they have been let go or had hours cut. The 2 young men both graduated from HS but were not literate – they could not fill out a job application without someone’s help. These men are underemployed but also lack skills to find jobs. They do not know how to use computers or the internet proficiently, nor have one at home. They barely speak English fluently.

The daughters /husband/2kids each received welfare benefits.

The 1 son who we befriended and would ask us for advice, help, guidance, would often tell us how they barely scraped by to buy food. Here is what we observed:

–They All had cell phones
–They also pay for a home phone- I asked the son why they had a home phone? Answer: we’ve always had it, but I should ask my parents.
–They buy alcohol – we would see recycling bags filled with beer cans/ liquor bottles
–They pay for cable TV
–They have nice clothes / sneakers
–They have high fat diets- a lot of Mexican food, a lot of pizza, a lot of prepackaged food. The 3 woman of the house are obese

Another family we know – when they are making money working in construction, they SPEND it, they do not save. Now they are unemployed. They have 2 PS3s and loads of games – 1 for the adults, 1 for the kids. They have iPhones, they have cable TV, they drive 30k gas guzzling cars that get 8mpg and then cannot afford to put gas in these cars. They are on welfare. They are obese

These are just 2 families, but I observe these same things firsthand repeated over and over.

We have a friend who is an economics teacher in a poor farming community in Northern CA. He tries to teach his kids about diet, exercise and money. They are kids who are POOR, but have ipods, Xbox’s or PS3s and their families buy cable. Their families have no value for exercise, or necessarily education, they just want their kids working so they have one less mouth to feed. We live in a world now where if kids, even very poor ones don’t have some of these toys, its like they are being abused.

What we need is a better WELFARE system in providing aid that obligates them to go to classes on parenting, diet, budgeting/credit cards/ finances.

[zzz]

SD Realtor- I agree with you that there are many families who already scrimp, save and still barely scrape by and have 0 to little modern luxuries. There ALWAYS will be folks who live marginally, inflation or not, they are folks who works 2 or 3 jobs, to feed their children, and often their extended families. However, there are a LOT of these marginal families who need to make better choices, but often lack the skills needed to do so.

You are wrong about the middle class having worst eating habits, not that the middle class doesn’t overeat or choose very poorly. The poorest in this country are the most obese, from the NYT article referenced below: “Seven of the 10 states with the highest poverty levels are also among the 10 states with the highest obesity rates.”

http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger&obesity.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5576/obesity_and_poverty_the_poorest_of.html?cat=51
http://scienceblog.com/14046/correlation-between-obesity-and-poverty-healthy-people-2010-should-increase-attention-on-those-in-poverty/

There are hundreds if not thousands of other articles if you just google poverty and obesity.

You said you DONT know these poor people yourself, what are you doing to help them? I find it ironic you are calling other people elitist on this board.

There are a lot of other trends that come with those who are poor, disadvantaged that leads them to mismanage what money they do have. Many of these poor families lack education, do not understand nutrition, they do not value education for their children, do not value exercise, and they do not know how to manage finances. This cycle repeats itself generation after generation.

I DO know these poor people, I volunteer to help children and families in these situations and the trends I presented above are not anecdotal, there are many many statistics to back this up. In MH, just a few houses down from us, the original home that never got rebuilt/remodeled has housed the same family, many generations of Mexicans for over 30 years. There are12 people living in 800 sq ft. 2 grandparents in their 50s, their 3 kids (2 daughters, 1 son). The 2 daughters have 2 small children + their husbands who had just gotten out of jail. Plus one kid they took in off the streets. The 2 parents work, the 2 daughters do not, and their husbands had temporary work ( whatever they could pick up). The 2 young men work in odd jobs or in minimum wage jobs when they can find it or get hired, but in this economy, they have been let go or had hours cut. The 2 young men both graduated from HS but were not literate – they could not fill out a job application without someone’s help. These men are underemployed but also lack skills to find jobs. They do not know how to use computers or the internet proficiently, nor have one at home. They barely speak English fluently.

The daughters /husband/2kids each received welfare benefits.

The 1 son who we befriended and would ask us for advice, help, guidance, would often tell us how they barely scraped by to buy food. Here is what we observed:

–They All had cell phones
–They also pay for a home phone- I asked the son why they had a home phone? Answer: we’ve always had it, but I should ask my parents.
–They buy alcohol – we would see recycling bags filled with beer cans/ liquor bottles
–They pay for cable TV
–They have nice clothes / sneakers
–They have high fat diets- a lot of Mexican food, a lot of pizza, a lot of prepackaged food. The 3 woman of the house are obese

Another family we know – when they are making money working in construction, they SPEND it, they do not save. Now they are unemployed. They have 2 PS3s and loads of games – 1 for the adults, 1 for the kids. They have iPhones, they have cable TV, they drive 30k gas guzzling cars that get 8mpg and then cannot afford to put gas in these cars. They are on welfare. They are obese

These are just 2 families, but I observe these same things firsthand repeated over and over.

We have a friend who is an economics teacher in a poor farming community in Northern CA. He tries to teach his kids about diet, exercise and money. They are kids who are POOR, but have ipods, Xbox’s or PS3s and their families buy cable. Their families have no value for exercise, or necessarily education, they just want their kids working so they have one less mouth to feed. We live in a world now where if kids, even very poor ones don’t have some of these toys, its like they are being abused.

What we need is a better WELFARE system in providing aid that obligates them to go to classes on parenting, diet, budgeting/credit cards/ finances.

[zzz]

SD Realtor- I agree with you that there are many families who already scrimp, save and still barely scrape by and have 0 to little modern luxuries. There ALWAYS will be folks who live marginally, inflation or not, they are folks who works 2 or 3 jobs, to feed their children, and often their extended families. However, there are a LOT of these marginal families who need to make better choices, but often lack the skills needed to do so.

You are wrong about the middle class having worst eating habits, not that the middle class doesn’t overeat or choose very poorly. The poorest in this country are the most obese, from the NYT article referenced below: “Seven of the 10 states with the highest poverty levels are also among the 10 states with the highest obesity rates.”

http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger&obesity.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5576/obesity_and_poverty_the_poorest_of.html?cat=51
http://scienceblog.com/14046/correlation-between-obesity-and-poverty-healthy-people-2010-should-increase-attention-on-those-in-poverty/

There are hundreds if not thousands of other articles if you just google poverty and obesity.

You said you DONT know these poor people yourself, what are you doing to help them? I find it ironic you are calling other people elitist on this board.

There are a lot of other trends that come with those who are poor, disadvantaged that leads them to mismanage what money they do have. Many of these poor families lack education, do not understand nutrition, they do not value education for their children, do not value exercise, and they do not know how to manage finances. This cycle repeats itself generation after generation.

I DO know these poor people, I volunteer to help children and families in these situations and the trends I presented above are not anecdotal, there are many many statistics to back this up. In MH, just a few houses down from us, the original home that never got rebuilt/remodeled has housed the same family, many generations of Mexicans for over 30 years. There are12 people living in 800 sq ft. 2 grandparents in their 50s, their 3 kids (2 daughters, 1 son). The 2 daughters have 2 small children + their husbands who had just gotten out of jail. Plus one kid they took in off the streets. The 2 parents work, the 2 daughters do not, and their husbands had temporary work ( whatever they could pick up). The 2 young men work in odd jobs or in minimum wage jobs when they can find it or get hired, but in this economy, they have been let go or had hours cut. The 2 young men both graduated from HS but were not literate – they could not fill out a job application without someone’s help. These men are underemployed but also lack skills to find jobs. They do not know how to use computers or the internet proficiently, nor have one at home. They barely speak English fluently.

The daughters /husband/2kids each received welfare benefits.

The 1 son who we befriended and would ask us for advice, help, guidance, would often tell us how they barely scraped by to buy food. Here is what we observed:

–They All had cell phones
–They also pay for a home phone- I asked the son why they had a home phone? Answer: we’ve always had it, but I should ask my parents.
–They buy alcohol – we would see recycling bags filled with beer cans/ liquor bottles
–They pay for cable TV
–They have nice clothes / sneakers
–They have high fat diets- a lot of Mexican food, a lot of pizza, a lot of prepackaged food. The 3 woman of the house are obese

Another family we know – when they are making money working in construction, they SPEND it, they do not save. Now they are unemployed. They have 2 PS3s and loads of games – 1 for the adults, 1 for the kids. They have iPhones, they have cable TV, they drive 30k gas guzzling cars that get 8mpg and then cannot afford to put gas in these cars. They are on welfare. They are obese

These are just 2 families, but I observe these same things firsthand repeated over and over.

We have a friend who is an economics teacher in a poor farming community in Northern CA. He tries to teach his kids about diet, exercise and money. They are kids who are POOR, but have ipods, Xbox’s or PS3s and their families buy cable. Their families have no value for exercise, or necessarily education, they just want their kids working so they have one less mouth to feed. We live in a world now where if kids, even very poor ones don’t have some of these toys, its like they are being abused.

What we need is a better WELFARE system in providing aid that obligates them to go to classes on parenting, diet, budgeting/credit cards/ finances.

[zzz]

SD Realtor- I agree with you that there are many families who already scrimp, save and still barely scrape by and have 0 to little modern luxuries. There ALWAYS will be folks who live marginally, inflation or not, they are folks who works 2 or 3 jobs, to feed their children, and often their extended families. However, there are a LOT of these marginal families who need to make better choices, but often lack the skills needed to do so.

You are wrong about the middle class having worst eating habits, not that the middle class doesn’t overeat or choose very poorly. The poorest in this country are the most obese, from the NYT article referenced below: “Seven of the 10 states with the highest poverty levels are also among the 10 states with the highest obesity rates.”

http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger&obesity.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5576/obesity_and_poverty_the_poorest_of.html?cat=51
http://scienceblog.com/14046/correlation-between-obesity-and-poverty-healthy-people-2010-should-increase-attention-on-those-in-poverty/

There are hundreds if not thousands of other articles if you just google poverty and obesity.

You said you DONT know these poor people yourself, what are you doing to help them? I find it ironic you are calling other people elitist on this board.

There are a lot of other trends that come with those who are poor, disadvantaged that leads them to mismanage what money they do have. Many of these poor families lack education, do not understand nutrition, they do not value education for their children, do not value exercise, and they do not know how to manage finances. This cycle repeats itself generation after generation.

I DO know these poor people, I volunteer to help children and families in these situations and the trends I presented above are not anecdotal, there are many many statistics to back this up. In MH, just a few houses down from us, the original home that never got rebuilt/remodeled has housed the same family, many generations of Mexicans for over 30 years. There are12 people living in 800 sq ft. 2 grandparents in their 50s, their 3 kids (2 daughters, 1 son). The 2 daughters have 2 small children + their husbands who had just gotten out of jail. Plus one kid they took in off the streets. The 2 parents work, the 2 daughters do not, and their husbands had temporary work ( whatever they could pick up). The 2 young men work in odd jobs or in minimum wage jobs when they can find it or get hired, but in this economy, they have been let go or had hours cut. The 2 young men both graduated from HS but were not literate – they could not fill out a job application without someone’s help. These men are underemployed but also lack skills to find jobs. They do not know how to use computers or the internet proficiently, nor have one at home. They barely speak English fluently.

The daughters /husband/2kids each received welfare benefits.

The 1 son who we befriended and would ask us for advice, help, guidance, would often tell us how they barely scraped by to buy food. Here is what we observed:

–They All had cell phones
–They also pay for a home phone- I asked the son why they had a home phone? Answer: we’ve always had it, but I should ask my parents.
–They buy alcohol – we would see recycling bags filled with beer cans/ liquor bottles
–They pay for cable TV
–They have nice clothes / sneakers
–They have high fat diets- a lot of Mexican food, a lot of pizza, a lot of prepackaged food. The 3 woman of the house are obese

Another family we know – when they are making money working in construction, they SPEND it, they do not save. Now they are unemployed. They have 2 PS3s and loads of games – 1 for the adults, 1 for the kids. They have iPhones, they have cable TV, they drive 30k gas guzzling cars that get 8mpg and then cannot afford to put gas in these cars. They are on welfare. They are obese

These are just 2 families, but I observe these same things firsthand repeated over and over.

We have a friend who is an economics teacher in a poor farming community in Northern CA. He tries to teach his kids about diet, exercise and money. They are kids who are POOR, but have ipods, Xbox’s or PS3s and their families buy cable. Their families have no value for exercise, or necessarily education, they just want their kids working so they have one less mouth to feed. We live in a world now where if kids, even very poor ones don’t have some of these toys, its like they are being abused.

What we need is a better WELFARE system in providing aid that obligates them to go to classes on parenting, diet, budgeting/credit cards/ finances.

[zzz]

Applejack, my comments could be irrelevant to the specific house you’re looking at. We know a few people in Normal Hts and also have seen a few homes there. The primary reason we scratched NH off the list, is because there is a lot of expansive soil in NH. From what I understand, it is clay. Every house I’ve ever been into in the neighborhood has severe settlement – the house changes several feet in elevation throughout the home or slopes one direction. I have no idea if this pertains to the house you’re buying or that section of the neighborhood.

The only way you can find out for sure if the home you’re looking at is built on clay is to contact a soil engineer and have them look up that house, along with possibly having an inspection done by a soil engineer. IF the house is built on expansive soil, it can get very very expensive to fix by someone who knows what they are doing. Has this house has had any foundation work done due to settlement, and if so, how far down did they drill? If they didn’t go all the way into bedrock, that house is going to keep settling, just the nature of clay.

[zzz]

Applejack, my comments could be irrelevant to the specific house you’re looking at. We know a few people in Normal Hts and also have seen a few homes there. The primary reason we scratched NH off the list, is because there is a lot of expansive soil in NH. From what I understand, it is clay. Every house I’ve ever been into in the neighborhood has severe settlement – the house changes several feet in elevation throughout the home or slopes one direction. I have no idea if this pertains to the house you’re buying or that section of the neighborhood.

The only way you can find out for sure if the home you’re looking at is built on clay is to contact a soil engineer and have them look up that house, along with possibly having an inspection done by a soil engineer. IF the house is built on expansive soil, it can get very very expensive to fix by someone who knows what they are doing. Has this house has had any foundation work done due to settlement, and if so, how far down did they drill? If they didn’t go all the way into bedrock, that house is going to keep settling, just the nature of clay.

[zzz]

Applejack, my comments could be irrelevant to the specific house you’re looking at. We know a few people in Normal Hts and also have seen a few homes there. The primary reason we scratched NH off the list, is because there is a lot of expansive soil in NH. From what I understand, it is clay. Every house I’ve ever been into in the neighborhood has severe settlement – the house changes several feet in elevation throughout the home or slopes one direction. I have no idea if this pertains to the house you’re buying or that section of the neighborhood.

The only way you can find out for sure if the home you’re looking at is built on clay is to contact a soil engineer and have them look up that house, along with possibly having an inspection done by a soil engineer. IF the house is built on expansive soil, it can get very very expensive to fix by someone who knows what they are doing. Has this house has had any foundation work done due to settlement, and if so, how far down did they drill? If they didn’t go all the way into bedrock, that house is going to keep settling, just the nature of clay.

[zzz]

Applejack, my comments could be irrelevant to the specific house you’re looking at. We know a few people in Normal Hts and also have seen a few homes there. The primary reason we scratched NH off the list, is because there is a lot of expansive soil in NH. From what I understand, it is clay. Every house I’ve ever been into in the neighborhood has severe settlement – the house changes several feet in elevation throughout the home or slopes one direction. I have no idea if this pertains to the house you’re buying or that section of the neighborhood.

The only way you can find out for sure if the home you’re looking at is built on clay is to contact a soil engineer and have them look up that house, along with possibly having an inspection done by a soil engineer. IF the house is built on expansive soil, it can get very very expensive to fix by someone who knows what they are doing. Has this house has had any foundation work done due to settlement, and if so, how far down did they drill? If they didn’t go all the way into bedrock, that house is going to keep settling, just the nature of clay.

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