I am writing on behalf of my daughter, Cheri Storm. My name is Kristine Dietz, my daughter got enough money in 2011 to purchase a house. She started looking for a foreclosure and found one in Vernonia Oregon, at that time we lived in Bremerton Washington. I lived with her until last March as I am disabled and she needed help with 4 of her 5 kids, I needed help with everyday chores. We or she did a lot of searching on the internet, spent a lot of weekends driving to Oregon to look at houses and she found one in Vernonia Oregon, got a real estate agent and made arrangement s for the inspection. We knew nothing about the town and went to the only gas station/mini mart, really small town not even a traffic light, talked to some of the employees about schools, crime rates as Cheri wanted to get her kids away from gang and drug influences because two of her kids were teenagers and one 4 year old. Everyone we talked to were so friendly, seemed to be a great little town. Cheri paid cash for the house and we packed to move. She call ahead to make sure the water and electric were turned on, we moved in on a Friday night in late October 2011, I should say this was up in Cascade mountain range, yes it was cold. On Monday morning we went to city hall to have water and power turned on, we thought it was an over site that they weren't turned on. We were then told we could NOT have either utility until the house was raised 4.6 feet because it was in a flood. We knew nothing about the flood and no one had to disclose it because Cheri paid cash and wasn't making payments. It is now 2017 and still no utilities, to raise the house it would cost an additional $85,000 of which we didn't have. We have been living out of an ice chest and no stove and used a small kerosine heater also did some cooking on the top of heater. We take showers at the town park or at one of our friend's house that we've made since moving in. My daughter could really use some advice, it seems that attorneys don't want to fight FEMA or city hall along with real estate agents/brokers or the bank that sold the house. I hope someone someone is able to help, it's been 6 years of camping in a nice house. My daughter is Cheri Storm, phone 503-680-5252, email Stormbnc@gmail.com. Thank you in advance for any help you can give.