MINOT REAL ESTATE 101, Was This House Flooded?
By Bob "RealMan" Timm, Owner of Ward Co Notary Services retired RE Broker
(Ward County Notary Services)
Was This House Flooded?Oh no Sir, not THIS house...Minot, N.D., flooded from the Souris River in June 2011" by Clay Church of the U.S. Army Corps of EngineersBelieve it or not you could buy a home in this neighborhood and be told it was not flooded... with the blessing of the MLS.How could this be? If one of the homes in this picture were torn down and a new house constructed, or if someone built a home on one the empty lots you see than the MLS says the house was not flooded.OK, maybe that structure was not flooded but the lot was. The devil is in the details. The pain will be when you are required to purchase flood insurance on your new home that was never flooded.Even though the Minot MLS says it's perfectly acceptable to say that the house was not flooded I don't think it's acceptab...
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