Posted on 11/02/2022 12:05:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. -- A Santa Rosa County property owner is taking matters into his own hands in an ongoing dispute with a big developer.
Bill Lewis says D.R. Horton construction company poured a driveway over his right of way.
The property sits near the corner of 10 Mile Road and Dewey Jernigan Road. Lewis put up a fence along the property line, blocking the driveway to a new home. Several pigs are now located right inside the fence.
Online property records suggest Lewis does own that slice of land, showing that Southern Acres LLC -- ran by Lewis -- bought the right of way in 2010 for $426,000.
D.R. Horton owns all the properties next to it that the company bought at the beginning of the year from Chase Farms. However, Lewis owns the corner of land where the driveway sits.
WEAR News saw several people drive by and take pictures of the pigs throughout the day Monday -- even feeding them.
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Homes with shared driveways are the worst
I wouldn’t let D.R. Horton build me a dog house.
An alligator pen would work much more better than a pig pen IMHO.
If the wind is blowing in the correct direction you can smell pigs a mile away...
In real estate Murphy’s Law rules:
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Clearly, A pig in a poke. And lives up to it.
That wasn’t the problem. Apparently, Lewis owned some land next to the road, and D.R. Horton built driveways to the homes across the land without Lewis’s permission.
This reminds me of my father in law. He had a traffic light sitting out in his yard, where his house sat on the dead end of a country road.
Why did he put a traffic light in his yard? Because the town said they were gonna Eminent Domain some of his land to put in a road extension. So he decided if they were gonna put in THEIR road on HIS land, he would put up HIS traffic light on it.
They didn’t Eminent Domain his land. The traffic light stayed up anyway.
LOL!
D.R. Horton does horrible work.
A pox on all their houses. It seems like it used to be a patch of good farmland that has been invaded by suburbanites.
Do they hire illegal aliens to do their work?
Just not very good quality cheap materials etc.
e.g.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/housing/dr_horton.html
Don’t know. But they have no quality control. They throw them together and then fix under warranty.
He had no choice, because if he did nothing, then down the road that corner of land would revert to those who built the read, because he never challenged it.
Good job. He will win in court, it is his land, and no-one on this planet can force him to sell, accept the government in due right of way, but it had to be settled before the driveway went in.
Awesome legal maneuver.
As I recall, the term for that is “adverse possession.” The ownership would eventually go to D.R. Horton and the people who buy from them, because they were the ones who developed the land by installing the driveways.
Yup, that is the legal term I was looking for.
Thanks
I know a gal that moved into a “fancy” new condo in Seattle.
She calls it her “IKEA Condo”.
“Yeah - everything LOOKS really cool and modern. But it’s all crap!”
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