The Corley family viewed their Lithonia home as part of the American Dream.
But then, as Anthony Corley put it, the yard fell in.
The family’s Shore Drive home is on a sinkhole, according to CBS Atlanta. They’ve spent nearly 10 years and $30,000 trying to fix it, but now the family tells CBS Atlanta that it must move out.
“The damage is too far gone, it’s beyond the driveway now,” Corley told CBS Atlanta.
On top of that, the homeowner’s insurance company dropped them, Corley said.
What’s wrong?
Start with the cracks that run throughout the house, CBS Atlanta said.
The driveway has collapsed – more than once – and the house has shifted to the point that it’s “actually ripping the water lines away from the toilet,” Corley told CBS Atlanta.
And in the laundry room, the family can see gas and water lines because of a huge hole, he said.
DeKalb County has deemed the house dangerous, CBS Atlanta said. The county replaced a pipe leading to a storm drain, and Corley said he thinks it’s the faulty one that caused all of the problems.
“The hole is still … every time it rains, the hole gets bigger and bigger,” Corley told CBS Atlanta.
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