Posted on 03/29/2024 8:50:10 AM PDT by gitmo
A woman who purchased a plot of land to set-up a dream business was shocked to discover a $500,000 house was mistakenly built on her lot.
Annaleine 'Anne' Reynolds purchased a one-acre lot in Hawaii's Paradise Park for around $22,500 in 2018.
Reynolds fell in love with the vacant space and was excited to transform it into the oasis for her business of hosting women's meditative healing resorts.
While she was spending time in California during the pandemic, waiting for the right moment to launch her business venture, Reynolds got a shocking phone call from a real estate broker.
The broker told Reynolds that he had sold a half-a-million dollar house that was mistakenly built on her plot of land.
A local developer, Keaau Development Partnership, bought the land and hired PJ's Construction to build about a dozen homes on the site - but the company built one on Reynolds's lot.
Reynolds, along with the construction company, the architect and others, are now being sued by the developer.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
IT IS HAWAII
When I had my house built, the construction company wouldn’t touch anything until I provided a copy of the deed and a notarized survey.
Were you the people that made the mistake?
Then if she wants money out of you to compensate her for your mistake, that is her privilege and right.
You made the mistake.
“… Wouldn’t a 500K house built in Hawaii be ,you know, a shack?…”
Depends on which island. On north shore Oahu it would be a tent on 15x15 foot plot. A run down uninhabitable shack with a killer view and a 1/4 acre lot went for $1.5 million in 2011.
No one bothered to plot the land or title search?
It said they didn’t even do surveys.
Just a guess.....DEI employees?
LOL !
And very apropos.
Isn’t that the point?
Punish other people for my mistakes.
Another reason that America has become the laughing stock of the world. Morally this is a no brainier as to what should happen. But now in America the legal system supports those in the wrong.
Another reason that America has become the laughing stock of the world. Morally this is a no brainier as to what should happen. But now in America the legal system supports those in the wrong.
Absocottonpickinlutely.
A commanding officer in my old squadron had a cabin built on his property. But it wasn’t his lot, it was the lot next door. The owner of the lot thanked him and that was that.
It must be easier to claim a "mistake" after building a luxury home on a parcel that was not theirs, than to go to the city council and ask them to condemn the undeveloped property as a blight and then turn it over to the builder.
Decades ago, builders in South Florida tried to do it the legal way to take waterway property from long-time owners in order to build yacht marinas, claiming that the property was too good for the people who currently owned it. The Florida courts eventually sided with the property owners and shut down the builders.
I can see builders in Hawaii taking a different approach by just building on land that is not theirs and then demanding that the land be given to them afterwards.
-PJ
Decades ago, builders in South Florida tried to do it the legal way to take waterway property from long-time owners in order to build yacht marinas, claiming that the property was too good for the people who currently owned it.
The builders must have been elitist Democrats.
I did miss that. Thanks.
Not on that part of the Big Island. It's in the Puna district where volcanos frequently take out subdivisions. (That just happened nearby in Leilani Estates in 2018.). I'm actually surprised the house and land sold for as high as $500K.
WINDFALL!
Excerpt:
An Eminent Domain High Tide
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — It’s across the inlet from Palm Beach, but this town -- mostly black, blue-collar and with a large industrial and warehouse district -- could be a continent away from the Fortune 500 and Rolls-Royce set. But Riviera Beach’s fortunes may soon change.
In what has been called the largest eminent-domain case in the nation, the mayor and other elected leaders want to move about 6,000 residents, tear down their homes and use the emptied 400-acre site to build a waterfront yachting and residential complex for the well-to-do.
The goal, Mayor Michael D. Brown said during a public meeting in September, is to “forever change the landscape” in this municipality of about 32,500. The $1-billion plan, local leaders have said, should generate jobs and haul Riviera Beach’s economy out of the doldrums.
Opponents, however, call the plan a government-sanctioned land grab that benefits private developers and the wealthy. “What they mean is that the view I have is too good for me, and should go to some millionaire,” said Martha Babson, 60, a house painter who lives near the Intracoastal Waterway.
Riviera Beach, FL Eminent Domain
Protecting Kelo’s Victims In Riviera Beach, Florida: City Seeks to Use Eminent Domain To Replace Lower-Income & Minority Residents With Wealthier Ones
Thanks to IJ’s litigation efforts, the residents of Riviera Beach are no longer haunted by the specter of eminent domain abuse.
In the 2005 now-infamous case of Kelo v. New London, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the U.S. Constitution allows the taking of property for private economic development, but it also pointed out that states may offer more protection. The Florida legislature did just that and on May 4, 2006, passed a statute to prohibit such takings. Governor Bush signed the law on May 11, 2006. But Riviera Beach’s City Council voted on the night of May 10, 2006, to authorize signing an agreement to agree with developer Viking Harbor Inlet Properties that the City would use eminent domain to take property for the project. As a result, an 800-acre area full of homes and businesses, including as many as 5,100 residents, would be replaced with a yachting complex, luxury housing, and other private commercial uses.
Riviera Beach’s Mayor announced that the City believed that Florida’s new law did not apply to Riviera Beach, so IJ sued on behalf of Riviera Beach home and business owners to stop the use of eminent domain for private development. Shortly thereafter, the mayor was voted out of office, and new city council members were elected. Responding to public outcry, they made clear that plans to use eminent domain were off the table.
Thanks to IJ’s lawsuit, Riviera Beach ended the threat of eminent domain. IJ withdrew its lawsuit, and the people of Riviera Beach could return to enjoying their homes and growing their businesses.
What was your response?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.