re: OT lawyers... question about real estate law

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get a few yards of dirt and make the ground higher

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not quite that easy... see, my lot is an end lot, so basically the water, before there was a house there, would drain off the slope of the the land that my house currently sits on....

they didn't bring in enough dirt, evidently, to make my house high enough and when the builder scraped the lot, they left a ridge of dirt of what was scraped off the lot... i remember seeing mounds of dirt at the exact area that the higher "ridge" of land encircling the house in the back yard before we closed on the house....

regardless, the lot was never graded to have the water drain away from the house, the builder said as much himself... i need to know if BY LAW its required for a builder to have the water drain away from the house.... if not, i'm fricked, i understand that.... just need to know if by law it's required....