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Old 04-21-2014, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by eweissenbach View Post
Our friends looked at that new home, and were VERY interested....until their agent Tony Trussler disclosed that it had a repaired sinkhole, and insurance would likely be expensive. There was another seemingly good buy new home which also had a repaired sinkhole. I think that these homes are probably less likely to have a problem than any other in the area, but still hard to pull the trigger on a purchase of a home with proven sinkhole problems.
With so many new and pre owned homes in the villages why would you choose one that had sink hole repair. My thoughts were that the ground under it was probably more stable after the repair, but if you had to sell the home it might be difficult. I don't want to gamble with 300k.