Sep. 3, 2008 at 8:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)lisajunghans (anonymous)

I really understand what these people are going through. I have been a single mother for 12 years and finally on January 9th I was able to purchase a home. I bought a brand new home in Junction City. On Memorial Day and again on June 5th my home flooded due to the drainage behind my property not being maintained and also due to some things that were not done properly on my home. Since the water came in and also under my home the footings on the back of my house sunk. You can visually see the separation between the floor and the base boards now. I cannot shut my safe room door or bedroom door. I have large cracks in my walls. The siding has begun to crack. The bathtub has started cracking. The garage floor has lifted and has very large cracks in it. My back patio has pulled away from my house and cracked in two pieces now. My home owner's insurance does not cover surface water damage. I don't feel that I should have to pay for it since this would not have happened if things were done properly on my home and the drain would have been maintained properly. I have contacted my builder on several occasions and he has accepted partial responsibility and has also pointed fingers at Kaw Valley Engineering and the city. He has made promise after promise about getting my house fixed and even went as far as to have he and I meet with his attorney to get everyone to come together to fix my home but as of yesterday, his attorney has not heard from him in awhile. Yesterday I made contact with an attorney looking for some remedies that way since no one wants to seem to cooperate. This has just been the peak of the problems I have had with this house. When I first moved in, I kept complaining it was cold and could not get a response from anyone as to why the heater would not stop running and I could not keep the house warm. The water froze twice. Two months later only to find out there was not a crumb of insulation in my attic. The first night in the home the thermostat went out. The second night, the dishwasher was not put together properly and burnt a hole in the bottom of the dishwasher and water came flooding out onto the floor. I moved in on a temporary certificate of occupancy and it took nearly 3 months to get a permanent one because things were not done properly. I could go on forever with all the issues I have had with this house but I can truly sum it up in once sentence: I didn't get the American Dream, I bought the American Nightmare! These builders came into Junction City (mine is out of Wichita) thinking they were going to hit a gold mine due to the influx at Fort Riley, they built quickly and poorly and then when the problems come, they bail out. My builder has yet to do one thing to fix anything due to the flooding but yet he continues to build houses all the way down the street. It is so frustrating. I poured every penny I had into this house, there is no money left to fix it.