It is a very safe neighborhood with mostly retired families. There are 6 other houses before you get to my mother's house, and they are home mos of the time. They all have this homeowner's association mailing list, and believe me, they catch anything that's going on. A few months ago, a while van drove down the road a few times times and appeared to be lost. I happened to run into them on my road as well, and they were looking for direction to a house down the street from mine. I told them where it was, and they thanked me and went about their business. I saw them down there working on putting up a new deck for the week or so.
Anyway, no less then 2 neighbors raised concerns about spotting that white van on mom's road and were about the call the police if they saw it a 3rd time.
The other day we had a good bit of rain, and mom had been complaining about drainage issues since she moved in. So I went over there to have a look. And there does seem to be an issue.
Here's the beginning of the driveway. Water is coming down the street from the houses past mothers.
Here's another shot showing it collecting in front of the driveway
It then runs past the left column
And at the low point of the driveway, it passes across it
Going back up to the beginning of the driveway, there is also runoff coming from the main road entrance, and it all runs down behind the garden shed along the tractor path
It then spreads out and continues down into the woods
There is also runoff coming down the hill that collects at the parking area
It continues and comes down the backside of the house
We'll probably need to get a landscaper out to look at installing single point drains, french drains, etc, and divert all the runoff through pipes down past the backside of the house. Will also need to look into adding some dirt banks or something at the driveway entrance to divert the water away from coming down the left side of the driveway and down behind the shed.