All Forum Posts by: Brittney Donathan

Can anyone recommend someone for property management in the Little Rock/Jacksonville Arkansas area? 

Can anyone recommend a handyman in the Little Rock/Jacksonville Arkansas area? We unfortunately just lost ours due to a move and have tenants moving out of one of our rentals soon.  

Thank you all for your responses! We had a contractor come out and look at the foundation and according to him it actually looks ok. The sink holes were caused by the city's storm line easement failing. The city came out the next day after this happened and started working on repairing it. Apparently it happened on our property before and luckily for us the neighbor knows the mayor and called him. We are now just waiting on them to fix our fence! 

@Jody Sperling and @Matthew Reid thank you for your kind words and encouragement. You have no idea how much it means to me. I was at work crying reading your responses. I know we will get through it. 

@Jill Curran We have contacted our insurance, but before we put a claim in we are waiting to hear back from our general contractor and from the city. We are worried that if we put a claim in that the city will be more likely to make a big deal about the unpermitted addition.

@Joe Splitrock I attached a picture of the location of the drain. It runs from our property across to the other side of the street. The damage we have from the sink hole is to the right side of our property, directly next to it and in our back yard behind the fence. The contractor thinks it is the drain causing the sink holes are in a line following the drain. Our property manager was so confused at first that he thought it was a fault like because of how perfectly they line up. 

 We were also looking at pictures from earlier in 2021 on Google Maps and it appears that the previous owners were doing some kind of work on the ground directly where the sink holes formed.

Hi everyone, 

So my husband and I just bought our first buy and hold rental. Everything was going great. We waited to get good tenants (about a month of going through applications) and the tenants we chose just moved in a few weeks ago. Our cash flow is great. We put about 7k into the property to make it rent ready. Then we received a message a few days ago from our property management company notifying us of sink holes large enough for a person to fall into that showed up in the yard after the last rain. Come to find out the storm drain that runs under our yard collapsed. Also, our foundation is now sinking on that side of our house and the wall now has about a 1 inch gap from the floor. City says that they will fix the pipe and fix our fence, but said nothing about the house. We also bought the house with an unpermitted addition (large bedroom and bathroom). Our realtor told us that in Little Rock Arkansas unpermitted additions are not a big deal. 

Anyways, does anyone have any experience with anything like this happening? Any advice on how we should proceed? 

This is a huge blow to us. We have been thinking about investing since 2017, finally pull the trigger, and then this happens.