A splendid good day to you! How the heck are you? What'cha been up to? Got time for a mug of coffee and a virtual doughnut? Help yourself. Say...you ever make a huge...I mean, huge...mistake? These folks did. This is more than an...oops!
You can’t help but feel sorry for this Florida couple –
their newly constructed dream home is now turning out to be a
mega-nightmare. Although Mark Voss and his wife own eighteen residential lots in the gated Ocean Hammock community, their house was accidentally built on one that doesn’t belong to them!
“We’re in total disbelief,” said Mark, who is the owner of a
property management and real estate company in Missouri. “We may have
moved someday. But, with this headache and grief, we’re not so sure. The
Midwest is looking pretty good now.”
The couple said that they purchased the lot – with the
address of 23 Ocean Ridge Blvd. – in 2012. Then they hired a company
called Keystone Homes to build the three-story, five-bedroom,
5,000-square-foot vacation rental that cost them a whopping
$680,000. Six months after the custom house was built, however, a survey
crew working nearby realized the error – that the house actually stands
on the lot next door to the Vosses’ – 21 Ocean Ridge Blvd. North. This
one belongs to a North Carolina couple who bought it way back in 2003.
Now, I'm sure they have approached the other couple with the idea of swapping lots. I mean the couple own seventeen other lots in the same community...even if they had to, say, give the other couple two lots, that would be a lot cheaper than moving the dang house. Of course there's a question of whose at fault here. Was the builder given the incorrect address? If not, then he has the problem. I'd be interested in following this to see what transpires. I'll let you know if I hear anything...and I likely will.
See ya, eh!
Bob
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