drainage culvert on property (houses, landscaping, neighborhood)

[chorne65]

Hi! I am looking at purchasing a house that has a drainage culvert located on the property at the end of driveway- between that property and the neighboring property. Is this a good or bad thing? Any experience or advice out there?
Thanks!
Carol

[jshallen]

it usually adds to the buffer between the houses....a good thing in my mind

[gastric]

Drainage is good thing around here. I personally prefer not to have to look at an ugly culvert though and dismissed a few properties that had them running visibly along the side of the property for that reason. Just my personal tastes. My current property has a small culvert behind the house hidden in a fairly wide wooded buffer between the properties. It's well hidden by the trees so I don't have to actually see it. But it's there and feeds into a decent sized creek that runs through the neighborhood, also well hidden in a very large wooded buffer.

[chorne65]

Thank you for your responses...It is a huge eyesore, but I understand how valuable they are...Careful landscaping may be the answer.

[Sayantsi]

I don't mind mine - its like I have a moat. You can easily landscape to beautify them or hide them though.

[Raleighson]

BAD. A house probably shouldn't have been built there. Depends on if you're up or downstream, but what happens when it clogs and we have a hurricane? Eyesore isn't the issue. The volume of water it handles is.