Friday 17 October 2014

There Is Good Luck,

and there is bad luck,


take the case of these two couples, first the good luck, a North Carolina couple who bought a plot of land way back in 2003, 21 Ocean Ridge Blvd. North, and did nothing more about it, so you can imagine their delight when a house appeared on it as, well technically I guess it was theirs and not just any old house, we are talking about a three-story, five-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot house that cost $680,000, 


this is the story, six months after the custom house was built, a survey crew working nearby realised the error, it had been built on the wrong plot! it should have been built on the plot next door, with the address of 23 Ocean Ridge Blvd, being built on the wrong plot means I guess that the house has to be dismantled and rebuilt again next door, if that is not feasible it could mean the owners of plot 21 Ocean Ridge Blvd. North get a new house for free, 

now the bad luck, the couple that paid for the house to be built by a company called Keystone Homes, is calling in a lawyer, meanwhile Keystone tries to negotiate a settlement between the two parties, it turns out they might be responsible for constructing the house on the wrong plot, it appears that continuous survey errors caused the construction subcontractors to start working on the wrong lot, but at least the builder must be given credit for his stance, '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,' that statement makes such a change rather than the usual pass the buck game, good luck and bad luck, a world of difference, I just hope all can be amicably resolved.


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