Originally published at: A Utah house collapses and slides off cliff as astonished owners watch (video) | Boing Boing
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Was Ron Hamburger consulted?
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A couple in Draper, Utah watched as their $900,000 “forever home” — along with a neighbor’s house — broke apart and slid off a cliff
Half off, now.
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So the half-life of forever is one year, these days.
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“Draper City has been following up with the developer, Edge Homes for months on engineering studies Edge Homes has conducted regarding the stability of the surrounding area,” the statement read. …
Maybe they should rename their company to Over the Edge Homes.
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It’s striking that it went from “good enough to buy for a million dollars” to “at the bottom of a ravine” in 16 months. That’s very fast.
Were there really no warning signs? Nothing that should have shown up in a home inspection?
Hills on cliffs in Southern California regularly collapse into the ocean/ravine/whatever and the response from locals is generally, “well they should have known better than to buy that- it’s obvious that was going to happen sooner or later”. I’m trying to determine if that should be my reaction here or if these people are victims of something.
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I’m hoping it’s ‘property developers forced to give them aaaalllll the money’ because, well, property developers.
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Don’t worry about it - the risk of landslide is a once-in-forever event.
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There were enough warning signs that they weren’t asleep in their beds when it happened.
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Looked like poltergeists to me.
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Yah California portends to take disclosures very seriously also. At least, the paperwork has a lot of very stern all caps lettering explaining what you must disclose… which nobody does. No doubt many a lawsuit happens because people don’t disclose half the stuff they should.
I look back and laugh all the stuff the sellers were supposed to disclose but didn’t on my house (which I’ve since sold and did disclose everything they should have).
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I’m sure there were.
Re: Home inspectors, I’ve seen videos where good home inspectors flag all of the BS that builders do. Some of them after a city inspector gave them a certificate of occupancy, only to find a bunch of other things wrong. It sounds like there is a lot of back scratching and under the table deals between builders and inspectors. 
Everything is a racket.
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I’ve got to hand it to the homeowner, he was pretty stoic about what he was watching as he recorded that video.
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In the house less than a year? Then this is likely an issue between the bank holding the mortgage and his insurance company. The homeowner is probably out their down payment though.
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And maybe they should rename the “Hidden Canyon Estates” development to “Sudden Canyon…”
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The article says that they had to pay both mortgage for the failing house and rental for a place to live while it was being repaired. I expect them to be able to hire a decent lawyer on commission now.
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They probably had time to prepare for this since they evacuated in October. I bet its insured or they are in the middle of working up a lawsuit.
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“Edge Homes” is definitely a bit on-the-nose there.
Do they specialise in cliffhangers?
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