The owner of a house, and the owner of a lot, find themselves looking for a compromise to a big problem.
Because of a survey mistake, Mark Voss' house was built on Andrew Massaro's lot -- the wrong lot. We told you about the problem Tuesday.
Jay Gardner is the property appraiser for Flagler County and said these errors are not common...but not unheard of.
“It's not something that's a daily occurrence but it does happen," Gardner said. "I mean, that is something we've seen and you know, there's several examples of it. There's a couple of things, I guess in the county right now like that.”
In fact, we found a home on Jon Bull Drive in Flagler Beach which is one such case.
Charles and Iona Show bought the existing home in 2010 only to find out later it was on the wrong lot and the builder was out of business.
Gardner said it took some time, but a solution was found.
And the same will happen with the Hammock Dunes home.
“I would say probably the best thing to do is the two parties come together and be made whole," Gardner said. "You don't really expect to see someone lose their home over this. The person most likely will lose their lot is probably what the case law is going to show.”
And if the two sides want to keep this from going too far in the county courthouse, Gardner has this to add: tax bills will be rung up in January. That may be a little incentive to get a deal done sooner rather than later.
“We can't keep sending, we can't assess it on the lot it was supposed to be built on," Gardner said. "So the person that did not build the house, basically a year from now will get a bill that will include a house.”
We tried to reach both Mark Voss, the owner of the house in question and Andrew Massaro, who owns the lot. Our calls were not returned.