A woman who purchased what she considered the perfect piece of land in Hawaii to host her meditative healing women’s retreats recently discovered a house has been built on her property by mistake.
While Annaleine “Anne” Reynolds waited out the COVID-19 pandemic in California for the right time to use the property, a construction company mistakenly bulldozed the lot and built the three-bedroom, two-bath house — worth about $500,000 — on it, according to Hawaii News Now.
Reynolds doesn’t want the house, which is vacant and has caused issues like higher taxes, squatters and, now, a lawsuit against the land owner because of someone else’s mistake.
The developers tried to settle the issue by offering to swap Reynolds their lot right next door or to sell her the house at a discount, per her attorney, James DiPasquale. She refused both offers.
“It would set a dangerous precedent, if you could go on to someone else’s land, build anything you want, and then sue that individual for the value of it,” DiPasquale said.
With fingers being pointed in every direction, the developer tells the outlet he’s pulled everyone into the lawsuit, in hopes a judge can straighten out the half-million-dollar mistake.