On the envelope, put some trigger line (I place mine underneath the return address,) like "Bail out plans available."

So who pays the water bill,, is the leak happening before the meter,, then the city is losing water,, if the owner is paying the water bill then he's losing the water and paying for it..or if your paying the water bill your paying for it.I guess I'd call the city again and ask if they can have landlord repair as your not able to get any results..Winter's going to be here soon,, and when it freezes the water will not go into the soil it will raise up and you'll have a lake to skate on

I may kiss that sweet American soil when I get to the home land.

Sometime the property is a disaster, and they just want out from underneath it.

We had a lot of soil delivered to fill the site & plant grass.

I remember the best years ago when my father was teaching me all about rental real estate in Australia.It was not unusual to had several European generations living in a home & they often collected a substantial amount of urine to boost the soils deficient in N, K & P under the fruit trees we had on the properties.

@Paul Comer  Make sure you understand your property tax's  AFTER you close and the property is reassessed.. along with be very cognizant of ever moving soils.. 

They can do a lot of damage to residential footings and foundations - one neighbor's deck collapsed from the tunneling underneath.

In these areas, "Extra water" pooling up without surface soil for the water to saturate and be held can cause a problem for yourself and/or neighbors down-grade. 2) In other areas, a certain amount of bare land (grass, soil, etc.) is required to be open to the sky for the appropriate levels of water to seep through and re-charge aquifers. 

Yeah, very real possibility of finding trichloroethylene in the soil there.