Is this bizarr-o, or what?
Over the weekend, I viewed a lovely chunk of land with an 1890 farm house on it. Needs lots of work but charming, etc., etc. On Sunday, I put in an offer. Full price, no contingencies. Today, my offer gets accepted. Overjoyed family goes out for ice cream and drive over to walk about the new property (no one is currently living there).
As we are walking, a neighbor comes over to chat. She mentions the sub-division of the land.
What subdivision? I ask innocently.
Oh, the property owners sub-divided all the land, didn't I know?
I go home and review my contract/offer, get online and review the tax parcel number and line it up with county records, etc....all looks fine! The amount of land the realtor indicated, the maps, and the contract all match up.....
Then I get the idea to contact a member of the planning board. She tells me the property was approved for subdivision into tiny little lots on THURSDAY, too recent for county records to be updated.
I call the realtor and flip out.
What the hell am I buying? She hems and haws, clearly has no clue, and "calls someone". "Someone" apparently tells her my offer was accepted on the terms that I was getting one of the tiny little lots, with the house on it. The land wasn't part of the deal. Even though it says so in my offer, prepared by aforementoned realtor.
Thank God I did some research.
Never trust a realtor, and never take your family out to celebrate a new house that someone just snuck a subdivision through and screwed you over.
I'll be taking my Pepcid AC now, and putting a cold compress to my head.
Over the weekend, I viewed a lovely chunk of land with an 1890 farm house on it. Needs lots of work but charming, etc., etc. On Sunday, I put in an offer. Full price, no contingencies. Today, my offer gets accepted. Overjoyed family goes out for ice cream and drive over to walk about the new property (no one is currently living there).
As we are walking, a neighbor comes over to chat. She mentions the sub-division of the land.
What subdivision? I ask innocently.
Oh, the property owners sub-divided all the land, didn't I know?
I go home and review my contract/offer, get online and review the tax parcel number and line it up with county records, etc....all looks fine! The amount of land the realtor indicated, the maps, and the contract all match up.....
Then I get the idea to contact a member of the planning board. She tells me the property was approved for subdivision into tiny little lots on THURSDAY, too recent for county records to be updated.
I call the realtor and flip out.
What the hell am I buying? She hems and haws, clearly has no clue, and "calls someone". "Someone" apparently tells her my offer was accepted on the terms that I was getting one of the tiny little lots, with the house on it. The land wasn't part of the deal. Even though it says so in my offer, prepared by aforementoned realtor.
Thank God I did some research.
Never trust a realtor, and never take your family out to celebrate a new house that someone just snuck a subdivision through and screwed you over.
I'll be taking my Pepcid AC now, and putting a cold compress to my head.
Dang woman. I had to read all of them twice to get it. Errr...