Rain, Rain Go Away!

The Holland area, and really most of West Michigan has been hit really been hit by rain within the last week. Yesterday was OK and today has been very nice (thankfully!) but before that it was terrible, flooding many areas. It was especially terrible because there were casualties due to this downpour. See some articles here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. I know, that's a lot, and I also know there is a lot more. It's amazing to me how much rain can really affect our area.

I was out yesterday showing homes to one of my clients and of the 4 homes I showed him 2 of them still had serious water issues inside. The two were foreclosures, and my guess is that the agents had no idea of the problem (I of course left them a voicemail). One of the rooms in the first home was under a half inch of water!

In both cases I am pretty sure under normal circumstances we would have never found those issues prior to closing on the home. There is also a good chance home owners insurance would not have covered the issue simply because we don't generally carry flood insurance in this area. As unlucky as many were with this rain, my client ended up kind of lucking out!

We ended up submitting an offer on a nice HUD home, with no flooding, just outside of Park Township (my favorite area of Holland). Hopefully we will have an accepted offer by the end of this week!