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I heard a story on the radio (no, I don't have references) but they were talking about a couple in L.A. who were denied a building permit, sued to get one, and then sued the state when their home slid down the hill or whatever happened that caused the city to deny the permit in the first place.
They won that suit, too though I can't imagine why.
I also saw a news story that noted La Conchita has been sliding since 1900. And yet people live there, knowing it'll slide again.
We researched our home before we bought it. We talked to the City and found out about floods and fires and earthquakes. We live directly on a fault, but you're not going to get much away from them in California. In what they call a "500-year storm" our area is expected to flood to a depth of about a foot. And we are in no more fire danger than any other home in a city.
But I think we are definitely the oddity. The city engineers were surprised when I came in to ask about this stuff. They were happy to talk to me, though, and brought out all kinds of maps and stuff.
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