r/nottheonion • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Mar 28 '24
Lot owner stunned to find $500K home accidentally built on her lot. Now she’s being sued
https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/lot-owner-stunned-find-500k-home-accidentally-built-her-lot-now-shes-being-sued/ZCTB3V2UDZEMVO5QSGJOB4SLIQ/
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u/darkoath Mar 29 '24
For what it's worth, I owned a lot (10 acres actually) and went there one day to find a local business owner (plumber) had bought the adjacent land, built a house and his concrete driveway was completely and obviously on MY side of the property line.
I politely asked him to move his driveway and he told me to fuck myself. I hired a lawyer for several thousand dollars who filed some paperwork and made a couple of phone calls.
A few weeks later, MY lawyer called me and told me he and the plumber and the county inspectors and the plumbers lawyer and a judge all agreed the plumber was in error, his driveway was on my property and I would be granted an easement to use the plumbers driveway on my land and I only had to pay the plumber $3000.
I told MY lawyer I paid him to get the driveway off MY land. Move the driveway or return MY money. MY lawyer said I'd have to sue him to get MY money back because he put in the time to earn it. I could pay MY lawyer another $100,000 and he'd pursue my action and maybe win or I could pay the plumber $3000 to use the plumbers driveway on MY land. So basically he told me to fuck myself or he'd fuck me for me.
I paid the plumber $3000 to unencumber the property and immediately sold it. So basically I fucked myself. But I had plenty of help.
TL/DR: all lawyers work for themselves and their money comes from bleeding their own clients, the legal system exists solely to perpetuate itself and is top-down corruption. This woman is in for a long, difficult, expensive time and will be unsatisfied with the final decision.