As Kim Sanford put away her China dishes after Christmas dinner in 2018, she noticed her cabinet doors refused to shut.
Sandford, a 59-year-old retired nurse from a small community near Kawartha Lakes, didn’t think much of it at the time, but would soon learn the problem ran deep.
Her house, she told CTV News Toronto, was sloping and sinking into the ground.
Now six years later, Sandford said she’s drained her savings in a legal pursuit to hold the former owner and home inspector responsible for what she claims was an attempt to hide the home’s crumbling foundation.
“It’s completely taken everything we have,” Sandford said. “We’re in debt. We have no savings left. We’ve gone without food to pay bills.”
In the summer of 2018, Sandford and her husband bought the three-bedroom century-old house in the Kawarthas for $285,000.
Before making the purchase, they hired a home inspector …