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You are not going to sell that home with groundwater in your crawl space or basement in this market.
Upgrade your home drainage systems, and get ready for the real estate market to turn around. It will improve. And sooner than later.
You will benefit greatly, as a home seller, in todays informed and cluttered real estate market, by not being one of the many homeowners out there that has groundwater in their crawl space or basement during the home inspection. Even staining and other evidence will get you written up on your home inspection report, prior to getting that new loan.
Your prospective home buyers are not going to stay long if you have groundwater in your crawl space or basement. Especially if you have lied to those formerly trusting home buyers, and not disclosed the home drainage problems, as mandated by Oregon law.
Finding groundwater in the basement or crawl space, when a homeowner is selling a home, only means one thing to me.
No one is, or was, at the helm, making tough consequential thinking based decisions, with respect to their home investment and their families health.
I will not waste my time talking to home sellers like that.
I will not offer to fix their home drainage problem if I am a buyer, even if I love their boards and bricks, and they love it and call it home.
They don’t deserve my business. And I don’t want their multi-decade groundwater damaged home.
A quick change of the home buyers heart and facial expressions occur when the drainage problems are first found, during the first hour into the inspection, as your real estate agent fidgets and squirms, reminding you that you are late for the next appointment.
The sellers have lied to you as informed home buyers.
They have called you stupid. Game on.
If the prospective home buyers find out, in the first minutes of inspecting your crawl space, that there is a big seasonal home drainage problem, and they were not told, most will bolt, if they ask me for advice, or read this site.
The groundwater problem could have been prevented, and wasn’t. Why?
Personally, I would just pass right there, on both the sellers and the home. And I teach my readers to see the value in it as well. Boom, outta here. Gone to the next home.
Because the time I would have spent with those types of knot head, non-disclosing home sellers will seldom produce anything of substance, from that mind set.
These types think they will act tough, “my way or the highway”, and then act like they caved in to installing another sump pump, at the suggestion of the home inspector and sump pump contractor, after blowing much smoke up the buyers posterior.
You know the rest of the story if you read this web site.
I will spend my time finding the right home for my family.
A home without a home drainage problem, or even better yet perhaps, I might find a home that I like with a fixed former home drainage problem, specifically hand excavated french drains, rather than buying into, and bailing out, an unfixed, undisclosed present groundwater problem, from two sellers I no longer like much at all.
Since the love is gone at that point, Bye Bye.
If the home sellers really intended to solve their home drainage problems, and not just install a sump pump, these home sellers would have solved the drainage problem prior to selling their home.
My readers are informed, and a lot tougher now than most home sellers are, with respect to their resolve, as it pertains to state mandated Oregon home drainage problem disclosure, and fulfilling their goal of not buying a home drainage pig, ever.
The days of home sellers getting away with passing on home drainage problems are over, if I have anything to do with it.
There are presently thousands of homes in the Portland, Oregon area alone with home drainage problems. I see many every week.
Banks are sitting on thousands more drainage afflicted homes in their REO departments, in Oregon alone.
Add the capital improvement cost of hand excavated french drain installation to your home price, if you are the home sellers.
Most home drainage problems are dealt with much too late in the game to prevent any groundwater and/or structural damage. Many homes, and home drainage problems, are fraudulently passed on to unsuspecting home buyers, home buyer pros, and first time home buyers alike.
Home sellers who try to stick home buyers with their deferred maintenance home drainage problems do not intend to pay for any home drainage system in the home they wish to sell what so ever. Not even a sump pump, if they don’t have to, and will very seldom pop for the real comprehensive home drainage solution to actually solve the problem. It is like chasing the squirrel around an big tree.
Most of these types of non-disclosing or fixing homeowners are perhaps already ruined for life, and much too advanced in their own resolve not to spend any money on home drainage for anyone to even justify wasting time talking to them at that point.
Many of these non-disclosing slip sliders are not very nice people anyway. No loss.
The subject of home drainage is just the worlds celestial way to expose them for who they really are.
My opinion is, non-disclosing home sellers should be nailed, and prosecuted, and their victims reimbursed at the very least, if not compensated as well, as Oregon real estate law mandates they not act fraudulently, and disclose all former or present home drainage problems to home buyers.
If they can’t do the time, they shouldn’t do the crime.
I recommend suing their butts into the stratosphere to get your money back, and damages, plus attorney fees, if you bought an un-disclosed home drainage pig, from these types of home sellers.
Call me for a referral. I know a few good attorneys who love these easy cases.
When things do heat up, and the home inspection report comes in and says groundwater problems exist, many homeowners like the ones I am trashing in this article, call frantically, angry, trying to find home drainage contractors, when the home is already in escrow, and they have only days, they say emotionally, until closing of escrow.
Many of these homeowners finally have to admit, or not admit, that their crawl space is full of water, and always has been in the winter when it rains alot.
It is late, but not too late, if they act properly and responsibly in favor of their buyers, and install a hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems. If they are truthful with their buyers.
If home sellers are fortunate, and have a professionally installed hand excavated french drain groundwater removal system in place, to stop the groundwater entry, they will close with happy buyers who know this is a very good thing.
The prospective home buyers will have worse groundwater problems than the sellers did, after sticking them with a sump pump, and not stopping the groundwater entry. The same cycle will continue, and get worse with time.
If you are home sellers that fit this description, and are about fed up with my continuous ramblings on this subject, and what you feel is trashing your right to be not inclined to solve your own groundwater problems, perhaps you should not own the home. Perhaps you are over your head in many ways.
Just step up, just tell the truth, and everyone will love you. It will be o.k. You will get your money back, both physically, and on your taxes.
Add the french drain installation bid amount to the homes list price, before even contacting a realtor. Remember, you hire the realtor, not the other way around, even if she or he is the hot shot.
Price the home yourself with months of review and neighborhood marketing knowledge, and find a realtor that agrees with you on the price.
A comparative market analysis can prove anything the realtor wants it to prove, especially your home price.
Read other articles on this web site for information on methods of groundwater removal available to prevent damage to your homes foundation, basement, crawl space, and/or footings, as well as your environment.
Learn how to prevent foundation settling.
Prevent mold, as well as groundwater damage to your home, caused by faulty gutter installations, and/or bad or non existing rain drain discharge systems.
Prevent doors and windows from jamming and breaking from the home settling.
Return healthy air to your home.
Save saturated lawn areas with hand excavated french drains installed through the yard, with grass or sod hiding the system.
Return saturated lawn areas to areas that will grow grass again, instead of mud holes for the kids to play in.
Increase the value of your home with better grading and groundwater removal.
Insure the integrity of your structure.
You do not want the problems caused by home drainage procrastination.
Be one of the homeowners without a drainage problem. You will be glad you both are those people, instead of the ones I describe as non-disclosers, for many reasons that should be obvious, if you know the difference, which now you do.
Hundreds of homeowners in the Portland metro area will say that they are happy with AAA Home Drainage, as a result of hand excavated french drains installed as groundwater solutions at their home, and under the gun, when closing escrow, to prevent groundwater entry into crawl spaces and basements.
Solve your groundwater entry, so you as home sellers can confidently disclose those former home drainage problems for what they are, solved home drainage problems, and value added capital improvements to the home.
Then, market your home confidently. It’s your way, or the highway, when you have the spiffy home everyone wants, because it is clean, with capital improvements and sweet air to breathe, as a benefit of no drainage problems.
Real value added amenities, like hand excavated french drain groundwater removal systems, sell homes. It is never the price. Always the value, that sells homes.
You prepare and market your home, not your realtor.
Prevent groundwater entry into crawl spaces and basements, with hand excavated french drains and quality roof drainage, leaving no groundwater ever to pump in your crawl space or basement.