Missouri couple’s $680,000 Florida beach house is built on the wrong lot

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Missouri couple’s $680,000 Florida beach house is built on the wrong lot

A dream beach house in Florida has turned into a nightmare for a Missouri couple.

Six months after the custom house was built along the Atlantic Ocean near Palm Coast, Mark and Brenda Voss learned it's on the wrong lot in the gated Ocean Hammock community.

Mark Voss tells the Daytona Beach News Journal they're in "total disbelief." The couple own 18 other residential lots in the community. They bought the lot in 2012 and hired Keystone Homes to build a three-story, 5,000-square-foot vacation rental for $680,000.

"We may have moved (to Ocean Hammock) someday. But, with this headache and grief, we're not so sure. The Midwest is looking pretty good right now," he told the paper.

Keystone vice president Robbie Richmond says the company is trying to negotiate a settlement.

"The buck stops with the builder. We know that. We are in the process of trying to schedule a conference call and find a fair resolution without the lawyers," Richmond told the paper.

The couple hired a lawyer.

Keystone and Voss say the error can be traced to a 2013 survey. The mistake was uncovered in September after the house had been rented frequently.

The house comes with five bedrooms, a game room and a screened-in pool, the report said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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your thoughts?

 

[Jazzy]

"The buck stops with the builder. We know that. Keystone and Voss say the error can be traced to a 2013 survey.

Sorry, the "buck doesn't stop with the builder." The "buck stops" with the original surveyor back in 2013. Also the "buck stops" when these people didn't bother to hire another surveyor before going ahead. If they had done that, that surveyor would have spotted the mistake. The builders only build where they are told to build.

 

[+paradox]

wouldn't it be cool to have a lot and then next thing you know there's an awesome 3 story beach house on it?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

"The buck stops with the builder. We know that. Keystone and Voss say the error can be traced to a 2013 survey.

Sorry, the "buck doesn't stop with the builder." The "buck stops" with the original surveyor back in 2013. Also the "buck stops" when these people didn't bother to hire another surveyor before going ahead. If they had done that, that surveyor would have spotted the mistake. The builders only build where they are told to build.

I agree the buck stops with the surveyor but if everyone signed off on it why would you hire another surveyor?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

wouldn't it be cool to have a lot and then next thing you know there's an awesome 3 story beach house on it?

Yes it would!

 

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regardless who's fault it is, the house is the land owner's home now...

the people that built the house on the wrong lot, now it's a matter of discussing it with the lot owner to make, or try to make a deal...

 

[Nebulous]

Thanks for accidentally building a house on my land, now go away and let me live in it.

 

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Thanks for accidentally building a house on my land, now go away and let me live in it.

haha!