# House for sale, check out the pictures **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-for-sale-check-out-the-pictures/855053 "2020-06-04T16:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-for-sale-check-out-the-pictures/855053/21 "2020-06-04T20:29:38Z")
Looks like my kinda place! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-for-sale-check-out-the-pictures/855053/22 "2020-06-05T11:50:38Z")
The roof is newly refurbished tho. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-for-sale-check-out-the-pictures/855053/23 "2020-06-26T22:21:14Z")
That actually doesn’t look that unreasonable. The biggest mistake was when the city/county allowed the house to be built in the first place. But a growing tax base is important today-the future is someone else’s problem. As for not allowing the homeowner to build barriers to the flooding there are 2 reasons: it won’t work and it increases the flooding experienced by everyone else. It has been tried in many places. The best way to deal with this is to have the city participate in the FEMA program to buy the house and tear it down. $3-400K is a lot, but still cheaper than paying out repeated flood claims. But there is a lot of demand for that program and not much money, so it will take a few years. We will be seeing lots more of these cases in coming years. If you don’t have flood insurance, get it. No matter where you live. And check how long your community has participated in the FEMA flood insurance program. If it isn’t several decades, but concerned, probably be very concerned. FEMA is notoriously lax in enforcing their rules, but some communities are so blind they don’t even want to try. That is a bad sign. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-for-sale-check-out-the-pictures/855053/24 "2020-06-26T22:23:37Z")
I must be missing something. what do you mean by topography? unless you are building in the shape of an unfolded tesseract, geometry doesn’t come into it. But topography is crucial in any building plan. Or I am missing something. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-for-sale-check-out-the-pictures/855053/25 "2020-06-26T22:28:33Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > From the link. > > > [@](#): > > > > It looks like this property has missing facts which can affect the accuracy of home value estimates. It says “Cooling: No Data”. That seems inaccurate, based on the photos. ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-for-sale-check-out-the-pictures/855053/26 "2020-06-27T03:00:38Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Unless you’re building in the shape of an unfolded tesseract, I don’t think topography comes into it. _Topology_ doesn’t come into it, but topography does. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-for-sale-check-out-the-pictures/855053.md?page=1)