Or sue the person who owned it when they put up the garage. And yes, when a sale is pending doesn’t the city send out a person to make sure everything is right?
As far as the law suit, $1,250/sq ft? Seems kind of excessive.
Hopefully someone will take up a collection for this guy’s legal defense.
The cities don’t normally send out anyone. The buyer pays for a survey and the bank and title company will check for encroachments.
It depends when the garage was built. If before he purchased the property then title insurance may cover him. If it was built after then the permitting process should have covered it. The survey company may have liability.
Of course he may have just built the garage without permits.