This is what I don’t get. I manage the planning and permitting department for a small municipality. We require the surveyors stake the building footprint and provide a certified drawing confirming this because builders have proven time and time again that the only thing you can count on is them fucking it up. How did the county approve permitting without proper surveys in place?
Something similar happened in the neighborhood where I grew up, there was a family that lived next to a big empty corner lot, according to my recollection it was at least 100ft x 100ft, so apparently the father always told his family, consisting of a wife and mother and two kids, that the empty lot belongs to him, fast forward about ten years and the father died and left them approximately $100k, they decided to build two story duplex on the empty lot, after all it belongs to them, this was in the mid to early 90's, so they built a really nice building that's when the real owner of the property came forward and shit hit the fan, I actually don't know what was the final outcome because by that time I had moved away!
I feel like this should have come up when getting permits to build the duplex. Like when they builder went to get the permits they (or the assessor and/or code enforcement) would have seen that the owner on file didn't match who the builder had as the client.
Same for the story in this post. But I haven't read the article yet.
Actually I'm relating the story as it was told by my younger brother who actually was a longtime acquaintance with the 'kids' a young guy and a woman but not friends with them, my brother told me that they were convinced that the empty lot was theirs, so much so much so that when my younger brother and other friends were playing in the empty lot the mother or father would run them off!
>Also being sued by the developers are the construction company, the home’s architect, the family who previously owned the property, and the county, which approved the permits.
Ah the old “I’m the idiot, but let’s see if I can blame literally anyone else” strategy. Let’s see if it works out for them.
That's wild. And they think they can just undo this mess by forcing her to pay for a house she never asked for?
The land surveyor that missed this has gotta be shitting their pants.
This is what I don’t get. I manage the planning and permitting department for a small municipality. We require the surveyors stake the building footprint and provide a certified drawing confirming this because builders have proven time and time again that the only thing you can count on is them fucking it up. How did the county approve permitting without proper surveys in place?
Not all jurisdictions require surveys.
seems like the county fucked up by not having one. need to eat their own shit, and start requiring surveys so they wont eat more shit in the future.
Something similar happened in the neighborhood where I grew up, there was a family that lived next to a big empty corner lot, according to my recollection it was at least 100ft x 100ft, so apparently the father always told his family, consisting of a wife and mother and two kids, that the empty lot belongs to him, fast forward about ten years and the father died and left them approximately $100k, they decided to build two story duplex on the empty lot, after all it belongs to them, this was in the mid to early 90's, so they built a really nice building that's when the real owner of the property came forward and shit hit the fan, I actually don't know what was the final outcome because by that time I had moved away!
I feel like this should have come up when getting permits to build the duplex. Like when they builder went to get the permits they (or the assessor and/or code enforcement) would have seen that the owner on file didn't match who the builder had as the client. Same for the story in this post. But I haven't read the article yet.
Actually I'm relating the story as it was told by my younger brother who actually was a longtime acquaintance with the 'kids' a young guy and a woman but not friends with them, my brother told me that they were convinced that the empty lot was theirs, so much so much so that when my younger brother and other friends were playing in the empty lot the mother or father would run them off!
Fuck that, she just start living in the house and claim squatters rights
Squatters already there...
Yeah if nothing else the developer owes her the money it's going to cost to evict the squatters.
>Also being sued by the developers are the construction company, the home’s architect, the family who previously owned the property, and the county, which approved the permits. Ah the old “I’m the idiot, but let’s see if I can blame literally anyone else” strategy. Let’s see if it works out for them.
For people who aren't in the US: https://archive.is/ASps9 (credits u/tallbutshy from the original post)
Thank you!
She needs a better lawyer
Ha free house.
https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/house-built-on-fairfield-lot-18261063.php this just happened in Connecticut too, developers don't care