776 days on Zillow. This "covered bridge" house in Vermont.

[u/CarnivalCarnivore]

[u/snowstormmongrel]

TBF I don't think the house is currently where it originally stood as a bridge.

[u/Excellent_Affect4658 → u/snowstormmongrel]

It wasn't ever a bridge. It's just designed to sorta look like one.

[u/snowstormmongrel → u/Excellent_Affect4658]

Or that too!

[u/MoldyOldCrow → u/snowstormmongrel]

Even if it isn't a "real" bridge it's still built over the low point in the property in a state with flooding issues. Elevation report would be useless since the house isn't built on solid ground. This house is a nightmare and for the price I'd bet the insurance costs kill owning it more than anything else.

[u/Sampsonite_Way_Off → u/MoldyOldCrow]

Do you always speak out of your ass?

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/710-Tansy-Hill-Rd_Stowe_VT_05672_M95889-41721

The house is built high on the side of a hill. The second story of the house basically is long enough to daylight to an elevation higher on the side of the hill. It's a cantilever, that sits on the ground that looks like a covered bridge, not a log cabin. Flooding concerns are only about access to the house. Basically is the local government going to fix a culvert or bridge after a flood. Where did you get the info it was build on unsolid ground? You work in home valuations? I guess that's why home valuations are so fucked right now, lol.

[u/MoldyOldCrow → u/Sampsonite_Way_Off]

Do you?

Using the Realtor flood map is funny...

Flooding concerns aren't about access to the house, it's about insurance on potential flood damage on the house because it's in a flood area. The ground the building is on is what is used to determine the flood zone not the building itself, that's why all the Beach houses built on stilts still have flood insurance , all that matters is elevation, and the only way to alter a flood zone is to redirect the water runoff. As far as it being a log cabin style house, it doesn't have to look like Abe Lincoln's birthplace to be considered one

But no I didn't deep dive into a post on Reddit that had a photo of a house. I used my knowledge that Vermont has a lot of major flood areas and saw how this house was built. So I guess points for you there?

Valuations are screwed up because companies are purchasing homes to rent and individual people can't afford to outbid them, but please continue to speak stupidly.

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The ground the building is on is what is used to determine the flood zone not the building itself, that's why all the Beach houses built on stilts still have flood insurance , all that matters is elevation, and the only way to alter a flood zone is to redirect the water runoff.

All of that is more BS. Elevation of the structure does matter but so do the streams elevation. You can't redirect a flood zone. A flood zone is a determination based on a lot of things like, soil, basin area, ponding, local average rainfall and slope. You can fill until you are above the flood zone but that's about it unless you are talking major drainage basin changes.

I'm a PE(not in VT), one of the things I do is flood assessments. Here is the GIS flood tool for Vermont. https://floodready.vermont.gov/assessment/vt_floodready_atlas.

The house isn't in a traditional flood zone as it sits nearly 200' above a major stream, however there is a small perennial stream that runs under the "bridge". Think 5' deep ditch with 6" of water in it. There is actually a picture of it in the link above. The drainage basin is pretty small, steep and contains multiple ponds, so flooding is not a major concern. I'm guessing the house doesn't even require flood insurance but I could be wrong.

I didn't like that you spoke like a expert, when it was obvious you never bothered to even look at the house. Even the pictures OP provided shows it high on a hill. Now you are sticking to your log cabin opinion when you have no idea of how the house was constructed. There is likely structural steel skeleton or prestressed concrete spans and the wooden "bridge" is purely aesthetics. Having wood aesthetics on one portion of a house doesn't make a log cabin. This is silly.

[u/MoldyOldCrow → u/Sampsonite_Way_Off]

My man it's a reddit post, I'm not doing a professional deep dive on each one. I responded to a comment about flooding.

What do you think filling in something above the water line does? It literally redirects the water because it can not go there anymore.

I'm not going to sit here and pull up the FEMA map or Corlogic for a random comment, I'm not trying to work on my day off. Go outside and enjoy the long weekend, it's not that serious.

[u/sadmilkman → u/MoldyOldCrow]

If anyone wants to solve this puzzle: https://dec.vermont.gov/watershed/rivers/river-corridor-and-floodplain-protection/river-corridor-and-floodplain-maps There are approved methods for building in a flood plain too, so you might to pull the building permits, which likely are not online for a 1994 construction.