We really need 3 minutes of your time today, at least!!! Jeff and I are really in a fight. To back up, but make the story short, the farther they dug on our property the more they found. Our house would have been literally sitting on a dump!!! They found a car buried!!!!!!! Jeff and I are under a great deal of stress and very burdened about this. On Friday afternoon the diggers said they weren't going to dig anymore because they got everything out of where the actual house would stand, BUT, they left exposed a HUGE amount of stuff buried in the ground where out backyard would be. You can see other junk and literally an asphalt road that was dumped there. The road is about 3 feet under the top of the yard and is 4 feet thick. The land developer was stupid and said to our builder, "We are going to stop digging now because I don't want to open up a can of worms." (of what would be under the back yard!) So they are refusing to dig anymore! We just don't feel right having a back yard with junk buried under it. We paid way too much money to accept that!!!!
Jeff, the land developer and his cohorts, Steve (our builder) and hopefully our lawyer (which Jeff has consulted- and is very confident that they are in the wrong) are going to meeti today, probably at 3:00. We really need your prayer for that meeting!!! Here are the 3 options that we feel we can accept: Rated from best to worst.
1- They will say that they will dig the backyard and clean it out! (They have already put 25k into just cleaning up what they have done so far, it would probably be another 25k to do the backyard.
2- If they refuse to do this, Jeff is going to offer this as a option- would they clean out the backyard, haul away the junk, but they can dump the asphalt down farther in to the ravine behind our house and bury it. This isn't usable/livable space anyway. This way they don't have to pay money to haul away the HUGE amount of asphalt that is buried there!
3- As a last resort, if they refuse both of these we are going to get our money back. But here is the hitch. We are confident they will pay us back for the lot price, BUT will they pay us back for the work that has already been done to our property. The excavators have already dug the basement, and the concrete workers have already prepped everything to pour the basement. Plus our builder would have to be paid for all his work so far! So already we have done 20k or so work to the property. We are afraid that they will refuse to pay for this work already done!
Ok-so there are the prayer requests, obviously the best option is #1 but Jeff and I are willing to accept any, as long as all expenses are paid. As Jenna said to Jeff as they were talking, "Dad, we don't we a new house to make us happy, we are happy right where we are!" And that is very true.
I will post pictures of the car they uncovered. But I don't have my usb cord at school today.
It was funny, our builder was there when they uncovered the car. He said to the "digger", "Is that really a car?" (a rhetorical question- in disbelief) and the "digger" said, "Yep, that's a chevy!!!" Kind of humorous...but not really.
Please pray today!
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