roger g
02-26-2004, 05:15 PM
Quite a few years ago I was travelling around a nearby city with a German friend of mine. As we were leaving the city and in the country he said that the German club that he had joined many years ago had bought some land further down the road many years before and that due to declining enrollment in the club they never did build on the land. When we looked at the lot he was amazed to find a house recently built on it. There were very few houses in the area of many trees and just plain vacant small fields. He was very perplexed in that he hadn't received any notification of the sale in fact he was one of many Germans who contributed to the land many years before.
You guessed it. The guy built on the wrong lot!!!!! The guy was very lucky in that the German club decided that they were never going to use the land and made the guy an offer he really couldn't resist.
Which brings up another horror story. My mother in law lived on the street for many years and her neighbour, who she didn't get along with, had lived in their house since it was new. The neighbour decided to sell the property and apparently didn't make any bones about leaving the proximity of my mother in law. When the deal was about to close it turned out that on his property deed my mother in law OWNED HIS LAND!!!!!! Needless to say he did some grovelling and my mother in law just signed the papers.
Gee, another one. When I bought some property I had it surveyed and it turned out the fence line was out about 18 inches which is a lot on a 50 foot lot. My neighbour when I informed him got really upset but all I could do was point to my survey. He got another survey which proved the fence in the right place. Whoa!!! After many many months with another survey by the Surveyors Association my guy lost his licence. Mine wasn't the only mistake.
Roger
You guessed it. The guy built on the wrong lot!!!!! The guy was very lucky in that the German club decided that they were never going to use the land and made the guy an offer he really couldn't resist.
Which brings up another horror story. My mother in law lived on the street for many years and her neighbour, who she didn't get along with, had lived in their house since it was new. The neighbour decided to sell the property and apparently didn't make any bones about leaving the proximity of my mother in law. When the deal was about to close it turned out that on his property deed my mother in law OWNED HIS LAND!!!!!! Needless to say he did some grovelling and my mother in law just signed the papers.
Gee, another one. When I bought some property I had it surveyed and it turned out the fence line was out about 18 inches which is a lot on a 50 foot lot. My neighbour when I informed him got really upset but all I could do was point to my survey. He got another survey which proved the fence in the right place. Whoa!!! After many many months with another survey by the Surveyors Association my guy lost his licence. Mine wasn't the only mistake.
Roger