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.
I know, I’ll sue my way out!
It’s kinda the american way…
The American Way!™©®
(patent pending)
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Lot owner stunned to find $500K home accidentally built on her lot. Now she’s being sued March 28, 2024 at 12:21 pm EDT Annaleine Reynolds says she was shocked to find a home built on a lot she purchased in Puna, Hawaii, and told Hawaii News Now that she doesn’t want the house there and has had to deal with problems like higher taxes and squatters. A woman is headed to court after a Hawaii construction company built a half-million-dollar house on the wrong property, The Associated Press reported.
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Annaleine Reynolds says she was shocked to find a home built on a lot she purchased in Puna, Hawaii, and told Hawaii News Now that she doesn’t want the house there and has had to deal with problems like higher taxes and squatters.
Reynolds said she purchased a lot in 2018 at a county tax auction for about $22,500. She had intended to use the land for meditative healing women’s retreats.
“There’s a sacredness to it and the one that I chose to buy had all the right qualities,” she said.
Reynolds was planning how to use the property when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, keeping her in California.
While in California, the lot was bulldozed, and a house was built there. Reynolds knew nothing about the three-bedroom, two-bath home, now valued at $500,000, being built, she said.
She found out about the home when she got a call last year from a real estate broker.
“He told me, ‘I just sold the house, and it happens to be on your property. So, we need to resolve this,’” Reynolds said. “And I was like, what? Are you kidding me?”
Local developer Keaau Development Partnership hired PJ’s Construction to build about a dozen homes on the properties the developer bought in the subdivision. But the company accidentally built one on Reynolds’ lot.
According to KKTV, the lots are identified by information on telephone poles.
To add insult to injury, Reynolds is being sued by the property’s developers. 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.
Reynolds has refused both offers.
“It would set a dangerous precedent if you could go onto someone else’s land, build anything you want, and then sue that individual for the value of it,” James DiPasquale, Reynold’s attorney, told Hawaii News Now.
Reynolds has filed a counterclaim against the developer, saying she was unaware of the “unauthorized construction.”
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.
The home remains empty, except for some squatters, according to neighbors.
The $500,000 mistake is headed to a courtroom to be settled.
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A woman is headed to court after a Hawaii construction company built a half-million-dollar house on the wrong property, The Associated Press reported.
Annaleine Reynolds says she was shocked to find a home built on a lot she purchased in Puna, Hawaii, and told Hawaii News Now that she doesn’t want the house there and has had to deal with problems like higher taxes and squatters.
Reynolds said she purchased a lot in 2018 at a county tax auction for about $22,500. She had intended to use the land for meditative healing women’s retreats.
“There’s a sacredness to it and the one that I chose to buy had all the right qualities,” she said.
Reynolds was planning how to use the property when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, keeping her in California.
While in California, the lot was bulldozed, and a house was built there. Reynolds knew nothing about the three-bedroom, two-bath home, now valued at $500,000, being built, she said.
She found out about the home when she got a call last year from a real estate broker.
“He told me, ‘I just sold the house, and it happens to be on your property. So, we need to resolve this,’” Reynolds said. “And I was like, what? Are you kidding me?”
Local developer Keaau Development Partnership hired PJ’s Construction to build about a dozen homes on the properties the developer bought in the subdivision. But the company accidentally built one on Reynolds’ lot.
According to KKTV, the lots are identified by information on telephone poles.
To add insult to injury, Reynolds is being sued by the property’s developers. 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.
Reynolds has refused both offers.
“It would set a dangerous precedent if you could go onto someone else’s land, build anything you want, and then sue that individual for the value of it,” James DiPasquale, Reynold’s attorney, told Hawaii News Now.
Reynolds has filed a counterclaim against the developer, saying she was unaware of the “unauthorized construction.”
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.
The home remains empty, except for some squatters, according to neighbors.
The $500,000 mistake is headed to a courtroom to be settled.
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Bulldoze it, it’s her land right?.
It should be like having someone else’s car towed off your driveway.
The example you used is pretty flawed. You can tow a car without damaging it. You can’t bulldoze a house without damaging it. If she did that, it would be like destroying a car because it was parked on your property. That wouldn’t just open her up to civil liability, but also criminal liability. She may own the land, but the house is someone else’s property. She can’t damage it or she goes to jail.
I guess it’s time to get a screw gun and crow bar
Oh wow, that’s a breathtaking level of incompetence.
It’s an easy enough mistake to make, but it should’ve been caught at one of the various checks during the process. The fault is entirely on the one sueing everyone. If you point a finger, there’s three fingers pointing back at you.
I’d still like to know the root cause of the mistake. The article mentions the lots were identified by signs on utility poles. Did a surveyor mark them wrong? Did somebody maliciously change them?
I also wonder if it’s something that could have been spotted if somebody just asked a simple question and wasn’t ignored. For example, were the lots addressed 1, 2, 3, but then 5, 4, 6?
Oh, I see multiple contractors having some trouble with their licenses very soon.
So many people dropped the ball (or the developer did it intentionally, anymore I wonder).
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