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If I was him, I'd offer half the strip each to the existing villas, at $10K each. If rejected, I'd remove the mailboxes and renew the offer at $12K each. If rejected, I'd get a concrete saw and start cutting into the garage wall at my property lines with an offer to stop for $15K each. If rejected I'd keep going until I got to the backyard.
The mailboxes would simply be moved to the other side of the driveways. And there's very likely an easement for the wall (the first house I bought had a garage that extended about a foot onto adjacent property - it was protected by an easement).
If I was him, I'd offer half the strip each to the existing villas, at $10K each. If rejected, I'd remove the mailboxes and renew the offer at $12K each. If rejected, I'd get a concrete saw and start cutting into the garage wall at my property lines with an offer to stop for $15K each. If rejected I'd keep going until I got to the backyard.
You would need to get a demolition permit. He could probably start by removing the mail boxes. Then put up one of those large Public Notice signs on his strip of land with plans for demolitioning the wall between the two garages. Then wait and see if that gets a response from the property owners.
If that doesn't work, another solution might be for him to get a court order for the owners to remove their structure from his property.
Smart enough to not get myself into that kind of situation so what I actually could do or would do about it is something I haven't put a lot of thought into.
Best thing this guy can do is accept he made a 10k dollar mistake and move on with his life. He didn't get "Ripped off" as the thread title claims; he made a mistake. Whining about it only lets others in his life know he's foolish.
Let it go. If 10k is a significant sum of money in your life maybe you're not suited to real estate speculation
Smart enough to not get myself into that kind of situation so what I actually could do or would do about it is something I haven't put a lot of thought into.
I think most people are.
I have a feeling the guy might have a case for deceptive advertising since he thought he was buying the villa and should schedule a consultation with a real estate attorney, but how dumb can someone possibly get...
He was greedy, thought he was going to get the bargain of the century and didn't bother to do his due diligence. This article linked to in the original link has more details
“It’s deception,” said Holness, a first-time auction bidder from Tamarac. “There was no demarcation to show you it’s just a line going through [the villa duplex], even though they have the tools to show that.”
Holness said that property appraiser pictures linked to the auction site showed the villa as being the parcel he was bidding on.
But the appraiser’s site and information on the county’s tax site also show the negligible value of the property, that there is no building value, that the land takes up only 100 square feet and that the property is one-foot wide.
And how long have the garages been there? They might have some rights of adverse possession.
In my state, you can't "adverse possess" state/government land, so when it goes to tax sale, the clock for adverse possession restarts - unless the claim was won & recorded before property reverted to the state.
He was greedy, thought he was going to get the bargain of the century and didn't bother to do his due diligence. This article linked to in the original link has more details
In this story that was previously posted, https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/b...coy-story.html, it states that one owner her property in April after he had already bought his. Her title company did not flag it. Maybe she could make a deal with the buyer and go after the title company to buy it from him.
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