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Offline dpareja

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Texas man loses family home in mistake
« on: July 18, 2013, 09:03:24 pm »
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/07/18/wrong-house-demolished.html

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A homeowner in Fort Worth, Tex., returned from holiday on the weekend only to discover a concrete foundation where he had left a three-bedroom house standing.

David Underwood and his wife found an empty lot — and a mailbox marking the location of the 1,300-square-foot house that had been in his family for generations.

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The 1951 structure, which he recently purchased from his aunt, had been vacant, with the utilities turned off, because Underwood was planning to renovate it before moving in.

Wow. Just wow. I wonder if it was the city giving the wrong address or the contractor being incompetent?
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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2013, 09:18:57 pm »
Wow. How do you fuck up that much? Aren't you supposed to be really goddamned sure about the details when you're about to permanently wipe something off the face of the earth? Poor guy. Hopefully he has somewhere to stay until he gets this shit sorted out.

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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2013, 09:26:57 pm »
Wow. How do you fuck up that much? Aren't you supposed to be really goddamned sure about the details when you're about to permanently wipe something off the face of the earth? Poor guy. Hopefully he has somewhere to stay until he gets this shit sorted out.

I expect he does have somewhere to stay, considering that he'd just purchased the house, and was planning renovations and had the utilities turned off.
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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2013, 09:29:10 pm »
Oh right. Derp :P Apparently I forget half of what I read if I don't have food in me. Time to go fix that...

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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2013, 02:23:58 am »
Well I see a lawsuit coming!
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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2013, 02:11:00 am »
This is something out of a movie.
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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2013, 08:31:17 am »
This is something out of a movie.
A shitty comedy movie no less.
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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2013, 09:18:08 am »
This is something out of a movie.
A shitty comedy movie no less.

Dude where's my house?

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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2013, 10:12:13 am »
To be entirely fair, at least it looks like the city's trying to do right by them.  There've been cases where people's houses have been accidentally foreclosed upon or demolished, and the city or bank behind it fought against correcting the mistake.
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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2013, 03:49:18 pm »
To be entirely fair, at least it looks like the city's trying to do right by them.  There've been cases where people's houses have been accidentally foreclosed upon or demolished, and the city or bank behind it fought against correcting the mistake.

Well, you can't exactly bring back all the pieces and put it back together.
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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2013, 08:28:49 pm »
To be entirely fair, at least it looks like the city's trying to do right by them.  There've been cases where people's houses have been accidentally foreclosed upon or demolished, and the city or bank behind it fought against correcting the mistake.

Well, you can't exactly bring back all the pieces and put it back together.
No, but you can use a legal team to obstruct justice.
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Re: Texas man loses family home in mistake
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2013, 11:03:53 pm »
To be entirely fair, at least it looks like the city's trying to do right by them.  There've been cases where people's houses have been accidentally foreclosed upon or demolished, and the city or bank behind it fought against correcting the mistake.

Well, you can't exactly bring back all the pieces and put it back together.

No, you can't.  But that doesn't mean you can't try and make things as right as possible, in this case by paying the cost of the house so that he's able to rebuild.  It's more than other entities have done in similar situations.  Instead of trying to obstruct this, the city's admitting fault and trying to do right by him.  It doesn't erase the fact that the fuck-up happened, but at least they're making restitution.
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