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re: Lot owner stunned to find $500K home accidentally built on her lot. Now she’s being sued

Posted on 3/28/24 at 8:31 pm to
Posted by bcoop199
Kansas City, MISSOURI
Member since Nov 2013
6653 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 8:31 pm to
If the judge isn't a complete a-hole the lady got a free house. It's not her fault the idiots built on her lot.
Posted by zippyputt
Member since Jul 2005
5741 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 8:52 pm to
Not Exactly:

https://www.faithlaw.com/blog/2020/03/what-happens-if-a-structure-gets-built-on-the-wrong-lot/

LINK
Posted by Higgysmalls
Ft Lauderdale
Member since Jun 2016
6400 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 8:56 pm to
I would take 4 lots for the 1
Posted by gaetti15
AK
Member since Apr 2013
13361 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:05 pm to
I stayed in this neighborhood when I air bnb'd in big island for two weeks.

I love that area
Posted by Miketheseventh
Member since Dec 2017
5709 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:35 pm to
I agree. They really don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s her property. She also needs to sue the shite out of them for bulldozing her property without her consent
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
Member since Apr 2010
30024 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 9:45 pm to
quote:

the courts need to immediately shut down this company because it's only a matter of time until they do this again!


The courts won't because it's Hawaii - one of the staunchest liberal Democratic states. Anything to destroy private property rights is within the scope of possibility with a Dem judge.
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
15448 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 10:06 pm to
That is an expensive accident.
Posted by Ricardo
Member since Sep 2016
4856 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 10:28 pm to
quote:

Her options should be to keep the house as is at no cost to her, or have the property returned to its original state at no cost to her, and in both cases have all her legal fees covered by the developer who fricked up



This seems to be the most proper course of action. She should say, "Move your house off my property and restore it to its original condition." Seems they wouldn't have a leg to stand on, because that's an entirely reasonable request.
Posted by dazedconfused
Member since Sep 2020
28 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 10:37 pm to
Exactly.

Agree that she should be made whole, as far as returning her property to its previous state. Don’t think she should be awarded the house and the ability to profit from it.
Posted by lsuson
Metairie
Member since Oct 2013
12134 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 10:52 pm to
lol that developer is fricked
Posted by boudinman
Member since Nov 2019
5020 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 11:00 pm to
quote:

In one case, a home was built on the empty lot right next to the one the person already owned. Rather than trying to tear it down or move it, the two property owners were able to work out a deal where they each got the other person’s deed.


Sounds like the property owner isn't interested in a deal. Why should she?
Posted by zippyputt
Member since Jul 2005
5741 posts
Posted on 3/28/24 at 11:31 pm to
The courts will likely force/via ruling, her to take a deal of some type or she’ll settle in some way.
Posted by ninthward
Boston, MA
Member since May 2007
20385 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 12:35 am to
quote:

“He told me, ‘I just sold the house, and it happens to be on your property. So, we need to resolve this',
dumbass f agent, they are all like this
Posted by BilbeauTBaggins
probably stuck in traffic
Member since May 2021
4303 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 1:28 am to
Read several articles on this and there are some key details that people have missed:

The development group is suing everyone:
The actual builders for fricking up and not surveying the area and the woman for being "unjustly enriched" by their own mistake.

The house is a POS. It was never locked up, has been vandalized by squatters, and is not close to what the land owner wanted for her future plans with the property.

Who TF cares how she wants to use HER land? She can sit on the property all she wants until it's her time to do something with it.

She deserves to have the house demolished, legal fees covered, and the land restored to what it once was, and punitive damages covered.
Posted by idlewatcher
County Jail
Member since Jan 2012
78922 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 4:21 am to
She should offer the developer a deal.

Either I sue you for $10M and you spend even more money tearing down and removing the house or you leave the house and I drop all suits.

The developer will have a choice to make. And several people will be without a job soon
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
67692 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 4:31 am to
Must be an unjust enrichment claim.
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Simcoe Strip - He/Him/Helicopter
Member since Oct 2011
36236 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 5:19 am to
quote:

The developers say they offered to swap Reynolds a lot that is next door to hers or to sell her the house at a discount.
Posted by bakersman
Grant parish
Member since Apr 2011
5704 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 5:39 am to
quote:

So they fricked up and want to sue her to buy it? WTF. Hope court awards her a free house and developer gets to pay the property taxes for 10 years.


Then turn around and sell the lot at its value before the house to include an improvement as is.
Posted by HubbaBubba
F_uck Joe Biden, TX
Member since Oct 2010
45710 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 12:22 pm to
This video shows the house AND the expensive fencing she put on the property, plus describes the additional property taxes she's incurred as a result.

some Hawaii TV station
Posted by hometownhero89
Center of the Earth
Member since Aug 2007
1568 posts
Posted on 3/29/24 at 12:30 pm to
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I concur.

I hope the courts just give her the house



To the person who downvoted this, you are the problem with society.
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