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...with a licensed, bonded surveyor when you're buying an existing house or planning to start construction.
There's a house I have listed for sale; brand-new, beautiful place. Too bad its on the wrong lot.
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Very, very important warning, John....my husband worked for a company recently that had to dismantle a house they had built that encrouched on another lot. Oh what a nightmare.
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LOL! ROTFLMAO! Are folks still doing that? Generally they notice which lot they are on when they start checking for setbacks, but maybe they got the right setbacks, wrong property line.
Back in '88 or so there was the bulldozer that took out a huge chunk of the neighbors ohia trees which get REALLY expensive after a court case gets through with them. Each tree ended up being about ten grand apiece.
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Welcome to the club John! Back in the early '90s when I was with C21 the same thing happened to the Top Producer(!) of the company. It was resolved by the owners of the two lots "switching" properties but the owner of C21 had to chip in about as much $ as the lot that the house was built on was worth! I am sure the owner of the lot was smiling!
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Amazing. Certainly makes you wonder where all the heads were that were involved in the process.
For those needing a surveyor, I would recommend the gentleman we used. He also surveys for the County. Email me for contact information.
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...with a licensed, bonded surveyor when you're buying an existing house or planning to start construction.
There's a house I have listed for sale; brand-new, beautiful place. Too bad its on the wrong lot.
YES YES YES! This is happening much more than any realizes and yes still Hotcatz! Unbelievable. I had a client very recently that as I submitted the permit application and the bulldozer was on site - the bldg dept said "no there is already a house there"! I got the bulldozer guy on the phone and he said no house/never ripped/ paperwork is on wrong lot. Sure enough when the original owners who had 2 side by side lots, built house on the "other" lot not the right TMK #. So by now, both lots sold, and luckily enough the owners just swapped lots straight across. No one ever noticed the incorrect lot # - Bldg inspectors, helco, and no survey.
Didnt cost too much money but definately a ton of paperwork and time!
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The two lots side-by-side both sold at about the same time, both were re-staking.
When the contractor went out to start work, he picked the one on the left, not the right.
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I guess the contractor just bought himself a house! 
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Off topic. Will the county let you combine two lots into a single one and put a house in the middle (right on the former property line)? Has anyone been able to do this in HPP?
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If you look at the tax office maps of lots, there are those that were obviously separate lots at one time. You have to apply to the county to merge separate tax lots into a single lot. Once that's done you can build whereever you want. The other alternative, if you think you may want to eventually sell one or more of adjacent lots, is to carefully plan where your house sits in that eventuality.
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