Cracked Houses: What the Boom Built
July 6, 2009 by admin
Robert and Kay Lynn lay in bed shortly after closing on their new home in the Blue Oaks subdivision in Rancho Murieta, Calif., abutting an 18-hole golf course. They were listening to the pop, pop, pop of what they thought were acorns falling onto the roof.
The Lynns soon realized those were not acorns dropping on the roof.
Little did we know it was the house cracking, says Mrs. Lynn, 67 years old. Mr. Lynn, 68, says they bought the property in 2002 for $357,000 as a weekend home and an investment. The stucco house was moving and shifting, with part of it subtly pitching toward the golf course, resulting in cracks and fissures in the walls, ceiling and floors, the couple says. Read more…
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