CLAYTON COUNTY, GA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Billy Banks said a sinkhole started forming in his backyard about a year ago. Now it's nearly 4 feet deep.
"If it gets bigger and gets close to the house, the house is going to be condemned," Banks said.
Banks said his home is only 7-years-old. He never imagined when he bought the property that his yard would cave in.
Dorothy Banks said Legacy Communities built the homes in the Manor subdivision near Jonesboro and when she tried to contact them about the problem she learned they had gone out of business.
"We just can't win because we can't afford to redo this whole back yard ourselves," Dorothy Banks said.
So CBS Atlanta News tried to locate the builders to no avail and the county said there is nothing they can do since the sinkhole is on private property.
"We might have to walk away from this house because we can't afford to fix this and we don't want to take a chance on something happening where our grandkids or even us walk out here and fall in this sinkhole or even the sinkhole getting to close to the house and our house falling in," Dorothy Banks said.
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