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Related: About this forum$1.8 million dollar house built on wrong lot.
Ooops. Rhode Island developer has been ordered by the state's Supreme Court to remove a $1.8-million house he mistakenly built in 2009.
The three-story waterfront house in Narragansett -- complete with a rooftop cabana with spa tub and wet bar -- was built on land that belonged to the Rose Nulman Park Foundation, not Four Twenty Corp., the developer that built the house.
When Four Twenty tried to sell the house in 2011, the prospective buyers ordered their own survey, by a different company than the one that surveyed the land before the construction. It turned out the house had been built on land the foundation owned and intended to preserve as parkland, instead of on the lot next door, which the developer owned.
"Obviously were disappointed," Four Twenty lawyer James Kelleher told the Los Angeles Times. "Its a difficult case because our position all along is that our client has been innocent. He didnt knowingly encroach on anyone's land. He was as stunned and mortified when he discovered the issue as anyone else."
The three-story waterfront house in Narragansett -- complete with a rooftop cabana with spa tub and wet bar -- was built on land that belonged to the Rose Nulman Park Foundation, not Four Twenty Corp., the developer that built the house.
When Four Twenty tried to sell the house in 2011, the prospective buyers ordered their own survey, by a different company than the one that surveyed the land before the construction. It turned out the house had been built on land the foundation owned and intended to preserve as parkland, instead of on the lot next door, which the developer owned.
"Obviously were disappointed," Four Twenty lawyer James Kelleher told the Los Angeles Times. "Its a difficult case because our position all along is that our client has been innocent. He didnt knowingly encroach on anyone's land. He was as stunned and mortified when he discovered the issue as anyone else."
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$1.8 million dollar house built on wrong lot. (Original Post)
47of74
Jun 2014
OP
Even if you do something accidentally you can still be liable for the effects what you did. n/t
PoliticAverse
Jun 2014
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. Even if you do something accidentally you can still be liable for the effects what you did. n/t
EarlG
(21,894 posts)2. Four Twenty Corp. huh?
Shows how dense I am, I just got that.
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)4. He may not have encroached on anyone's land...
But odds are good he roached on someone's land...