Although Mark Voss and his wife own eighteen residential lots in the gated Ocean Hammock community, their house was accidentally built on one that doesn't belong to them!
"We're in total disbelief," said Mark, who is the
owner of a property management and real estate
company in Missouri. "We may have moved
someday. But, with this headache and grief, we're not so sure. The Midwest is looking pretty good now."
The couple said that they purchased the lot – with the address of 23 Ocean Ridge Blvd. – in 2012. Then they hired a company called Keystone Homes to build the three-story, five-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot vacation rental that cost them a whopping $680,000. Six months after the custom house was built, however, a survey crew working nearby realized the error – that the house actually stands on the lot next door to the Vosses' – 21 Ocean Ridge Blvd. North. This one belongs to a North Carolina couple who bought it way back in 2003.
The Vosses have now hired a lawyer, while
Keystone tries to negotiate a settlement between
the two parties. It turns out they might be responsible for the whole goof up – continuous
survey errors caused the construction subcontractors to start working on the wrong lot.
"The buck stops with the builder," admitted
Keystone vice president Robbie Richmond. "I have built about 600 homes in Flagler County and this has never happened to me before. It does happen, but it's rare."
"There was no part of the process that we went
through that was circumvented," he added. "We
took the steps we normally go through. We are 100 percent committed to finding a resolution that is fair."
Source: CBS Tampa Bay
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