On 6/20/2011 8:50 PM, EXT wrote:

"Steve Barker" wrote in message
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On 6/20/2011 12:25 PM, willshak wrote:
The house was already constructed, but...
http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/06/20/real-estate-disclosure-what-you-dont-know-can-hurt-you/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl3|sec1_lnk2|71747

or: http://preview.tinyurl.com/3tjdomg

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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @


well, duh. they put yuppie subdivisions on top of landfills all the time.

Yeah, cheap 12" deep foundations don't provide much support, nor reveal
much underground information. So you could end up overlooking a lot of
potential problems. Up here in the cold north minimum depth is 4 feet,
many foundations go 5 to 7 feet deep to allow for a basement.

Well, in Florida I've seen houses built with even less that 12"
footings. Without any frost issues, the only thing important is
stability (lack of cracks)...

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