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47of74

(18,470 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 08:01 PM Jun 2014

$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 we’re disappointed," Four Twenty lawyer James Kelleher told the Los Angeles Times. "It’s a difficult case because our position all along is that our client has been innocent. He didn’t 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 #1
Four Twenty Corp. huh? EarlG Jun 2014 #2
Yep. 47of74 Jun 2014 #3
He may not have encroached on anyone's land... Blue Owl Jun 2014 #4

Blue Owl

(49,934 posts)
4. He may not have encroached on anyone's land...
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 09:13 PM
Jun 2014

But odds are good he roached on someone's land...

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