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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can ask the neighbor to split the cost of a drain with you. My parents were building when their neighbor contacts them about a similar issue. My parents paid to put a French drain in since they wanted to keep the peace. [/quote]

Why would OP have to split the cost? MoCo will require the builder/owner to deal with runoff. When we (our neighbor actually) called about an issue up the hill from both of us the county was out pretty quickly. We had to pay a lot of money to shield our view of their [b]monstrosity[/b], but the county was all over the water problems. [/quote]

Oh you are one of THOSE neighbors
 :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  [/quote]

Agreed.  I don't know the specifics and the law, but I'll give you an opposing viewpoint.

I bought a townhouse condo in DC.  Apparently the builder (who renovated the property) added concrete to the property  in order to prevent water intrusion into the building.  Well when he did that - the neighbors backing into the property line (the alley is an easement - about 3 ft wide - and belongs to my building) started complaining.  Actually, let me rephrase, 1 out of the 10 neighbors complained that their yard became "flooded" and killed their fish in their man made pond.  The other ones didn't give a shit at all.

All of this happened before I bought the property - but in this case - I think the neighbor is being unreasonable.  They wanted the status quo - where my building was having water issues.  Firstly - there's very little the builder could do on our end to stop their yard from being lower than ours.  Apparently there was a lawsuit, and the neighbor lost.

My point - the builder is not necessarily in the wrong.  [/quote]

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