On 2020-12-27 9:13 p.m., cshenk wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>
already gutted the house didn't work. He was rejected.
>>
>> Now he had to sell a half gutted house, and, as it turned out, there
>> were major issues with the septic bed. There wasn't one. The farmer
>> who had owned it years ago did not put in a proper bed, just a lot of
>> gravel with a short line to the tank. The guy had to spent a small
>> fortune to put in a new septic tank and bed. He also had to restore
>> all the drywall he had ripped out.
>
> LOL! Buyers beware and check codes!
>

It was not a matter of buyer beware. They were trying to pull a fast
one. They paid cash for the property planning to tear down the house,
which was very close to the road, and then build a much bigger place
near the back of the property. The zoning regulations required 9 meters
from the structure to the property and they wanted relief from that and
to go to 2 meters on each side.

When I went to the hearing about it the guy said he talked to the woman
at town hall and she told him he would be able to do that. It is a
crock. Clerks at the tow=n do not tell people they can or can't do
something. They give them the documents and tell them to see how applies
to them. He knew that he was going to have a problem and figured that if
he first gutted the house the town would have to give him the relief he
wanted.

He also made the mistake of ****ing off Farmer John the owner of the
tree nursery that runs across the back up up the side of the property.
He offered to trade him two acres from the back for two acres with road
frontage, knowing that frontage is a lot more valuable. Both of them are
Dutch, so Farmer John was insulted that he tried to pull a fast one to
screw him.

The guy was a sleaze who was full of lies and tricks to get what he
wanted. It backfired on him. He ended up having to spend all that money
on the new septic system and new drywall to get back the money he had
paid for the house and property.