So I live in a uppity 'equestrian' neighborhood and had had an empty lot behind us since the beginning of time. We had at one point thought about buying it, but the facts that A. its honestly the worst lot in the entire neighborhood when you factor in the slope, that its blocked on all sides with no views and its on the corner of our 2 main streets B. the guy who owns it is a builder who bought it at the very peak of the market 10+ years ago, lost his ass, and is holding onto it asking an absurd amount for it (see: basically 2.5x market) and C. eventually trying to sell it if we did move, considering it has been For Sale for over 8 years without a buyer, is pretty much a dumbshit idea.
Fast forward to this July.
There's heavy machinery on it, digging holes. Great. They dig out a 30+ foot deep giantic hole for a 2+ story walkout layout house that will be around 4500-6000 sq/ft. Basically they are mirrioring our house as the slope in the land requires you to build a walkout 2 story house.
The earth moving guys build up 2 gigantic 15-20 foot berms with the dug out earth, one of which is sitting 3 feet away from my 7.5ft high block wall seperating our properties. The wife and I immediately said we're going to have a 2-3 foot metal topper built onto it so we never have to see anyone, even if they were on their 2nd story balcony. Whatever, they better be fucking quiet or they'll realize moving in behind me and being white trash is going to be very regrettable for them.
And then..........
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing has happened since mid July. No machinery. No 'permit' board. No dust mitigation. No concrete work. No foundation. No utility end boxes. Nothing.
Week and a half ago I call the city and tell them about my concerns that A. the gigantic berm with tons of dirt, stacked 2 feet from my wall is slowly crumbeling and will basically melt/landslide as soon as we get into the rainy season here shortly and B. the dust coming off of it is basically blowing around everywhere, all the time.
I get a call from the city inspector who actually knew where the lot was right away and he had driven past it multiple times and always wondered WTF was going on there. He asks me about the grade in our yard and how we do when it rains, the dust and to take pictures of their berm in relation to my wall. Calls me back the next day and says the owner is being cited because there is zero dust mitigation and is being told to move the earth, but can have months to do the earth movement as there are some open ended construction timeline guidelines in town. Ugh.
He then asks if I'm ready for the really interesting news.
Apparently, here's how this epic clusterfuck has gone down so far:
- Guy buys lot (Im sure he got talked into how awesome and what a great price it was by his local mormon buddies)
- Guy (not builder) files permit to dig for foundation, which they did in July
- There are ZERO current plans/design plans/permit requests/anything in the system, at all, for this property at this time which is super odd, as they are normally filed together/around the same time with the permit to dig
- Even if they were submitted today, review/approval takes 2-3 months at best
- There is no builder on file
EL OH EL
I mentioned that when he hears from him about the citations to let him know he can A. pay for my wall topper and B. I want his insurance info so I can narc him out to his insurance as I'm sure they'll love the pictures of the impending disaster that will occur to my property within the next 1-2 months once it starts raining here constantly.
The inspector said he's never seen a dug foundation hole be left for more than a few weeks. He said he has no idea WTF this guy is thinking as when it begins raining here, it's going to turn into a giant swimming pool sink hole and the 10-15k they spent to excavate will be down the drain, literally.
Our guess was that he got financed and then lost the financing and/or got called by the bank and told they needed another X$ money from him in cash, that he didn't have. Or how likely is it he HAD a builder, and then the builder fucked him and hes stuck with land with a giant hole in it that he paid for?
I also googled the owner after finding the buyer info on the county GIS map and there's no fucking way he can afford to live here.
Have any of you seen crazy shit like this?
Hopefully he has this on a construction loan thats due in 12-18 months and then I can just show up and offer him .30/dollar to take it off his hands after he fills the fucking hole back in.
My biggest concern is that, if all of this is acceptable to him, what other total trash peasant level shit is totally ok with him? I've seen haji with higher standards than this dumb faggot. He's going to get an education real quick about how this may be acceptable to him, but not to me, and I have all-fucking-day to make you miserable; which I may or may not enjoy doing. Secretly, after the inspector's citations and his insurance threatening him, I'm hoping he knocks on my door so I can let him know what a rat fuck peasant he is.
Fast forward to this July.
There's heavy machinery on it, digging holes. Great. They dig out a 30+ foot deep giantic hole for a 2+ story walkout layout house that will be around 4500-6000 sq/ft. Basically they are mirrioring our house as the slope in the land requires you to build a walkout 2 story house.
The earth moving guys build up 2 gigantic 15-20 foot berms with the dug out earth, one of which is sitting 3 feet away from my 7.5ft high block wall seperating our properties. The wife and I immediately said we're going to have a 2-3 foot metal topper built onto it so we never have to see anyone, even if they were on their 2nd story balcony. Whatever, they better be fucking quiet or they'll realize moving in behind me and being white trash is going to be very regrettable for them.
And then..........
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing has happened since mid July. No machinery. No 'permit' board. No dust mitigation. No concrete work. No foundation. No utility end boxes. Nothing.
Week and a half ago I call the city and tell them about my concerns that A. the gigantic berm with tons of dirt, stacked 2 feet from my wall is slowly crumbeling and will basically melt/landslide as soon as we get into the rainy season here shortly and B. the dust coming off of it is basically blowing around everywhere, all the time.
I get a call from the city inspector who actually knew where the lot was right away and he had driven past it multiple times and always wondered WTF was going on there. He asks me about the grade in our yard and how we do when it rains, the dust and to take pictures of their berm in relation to my wall. Calls me back the next day and says the owner is being cited because there is zero dust mitigation and is being told to move the earth, but can have months to do the earth movement as there are some open ended construction timeline guidelines in town. Ugh.
He then asks if I'm ready for the really interesting news.
Apparently, here's how this epic clusterfuck has gone down so far:
- Guy buys lot (Im sure he got talked into how awesome and what a great price it was by his local mormon buddies)
- Guy (not builder) files permit to dig for foundation, which they did in July
- There are ZERO current plans/design plans/permit requests/anything in the system, at all, for this property at this time which is super odd, as they are normally filed together/around the same time with the permit to dig
- Even if they were submitted today, review/approval takes 2-3 months at best
- There is no builder on file
EL OH EL
I mentioned that when he hears from him about the citations to let him know he can A. pay for my wall topper and B. I want his insurance info so I can narc him out to his insurance as I'm sure they'll love the pictures of the impending disaster that will occur to my property within the next 1-2 months once it starts raining here constantly.
The inspector said he's never seen a dug foundation hole be left for more than a few weeks. He said he has no idea WTF this guy is thinking as when it begins raining here, it's going to turn into a giant swimming pool sink hole and the 10-15k they spent to excavate will be down the drain, literally.
Our guess was that he got financed and then lost the financing and/or got called by the bank and told they needed another X$ money from him in cash, that he didn't have. Or how likely is it he HAD a builder, and then the builder fucked him and hes stuck with land with a giant hole in it that he paid for?
I also googled the owner after finding the buyer info on the county GIS map and there's no fucking way he can afford to live here.
Have any of you seen crazy shit like this?
Hopefully he has this on a construction loan thats due in 12-18 months and then I can just show up and offer him .30/dollar to take it off his hands after he fills the fucking hole back in.
My biggest concern is that, if all of this is acceptable to him, what other total trash peasant level shit is totally ok with him? I've seen haji with higher standards than this dumb faggot. He's going to get an education real quick about how this may be acceptable to him, but not to me, and I have all-fucking-day to make you miserable; which I may or may not enjoy doing. Secretly, after the inspector's citations and his insurance threatening him, I'm hoping he knocks on my door so I can let him know what a rat fuck peasant he is.
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