I think they know the land owner isn’t going to actually lose in this but I think this is the developer’s intent to get the court to assign liability portions to everyone and order whatever the path to remediation is going to be. Their hope is likely that they won’t be on the hook for 100% of whatever its going to cost to make the land owner whole since she probably wants the house off her lot completely, wants the land returned to as it was before and isn’t budging. Then there’s the complication of having to evict the squatters at the same time.
What a mess. The developers messed up and need to pay!
With what I know of developers, it was probably intentional, thinking it was the easiest way to get the lot
Uh, it sounds like the best way to pay 2x+ the market price for a lot.
Vs not getting it at all
This. it was probably the only non available lot in the development and would hold them up for services if they had to skip one, and figued they’d take it and let the court figure things out later. We have had develooers take deposits and new condos and then just spend it all on personal stuff and non devwlopment purchases and then declare bankrupcy, screwing over every person that pre paid, they are unscrupulous
I saw something similar happen in rural Georgia. It was about 15 years ago, so some of the details are a little fuzzy.
Basically a county official owned a shitty undeveloped lot across the street from a nice developed lot owned by the county.
The county needed some kind of storage facility, so they built one. Unfortunately the county “accidentally” built the storage facility on the shitty undeveloped lot owned by the county official. No one noticed the mistake until the building was nearly complete.
Luckily the county official was a stand up guy and offered to just switch lots with the county and call it even. What a nice guy, he sure saved the county a lot of embarrassment.
I didn’t even need to click the link to know this was Hawaii.
Ok you win this round. I’d guessed Florida.
You’ve activated my countersue card!
The previous property owners are also suing the builder… Like why?
The home remains empty except for some squatters. Wowee
No, the developers are suing the previous owners of the lot, along with like 8 other parties.
Also being sued by the developers are the construction company, the home’s architect, the family who previously owned the property, and the county, which approved the permits.
Looks like a shotgun attempt to get anyone to pay for their fuckup.
You read that wrong sport. The developer named the previous owners of the lot in their suit. And the architect that designed the house.
