Ok this might be long to get the full picture.
I am a week away from closing on a home. It’s a great neighborhood, in an unincorporated area of our city. Seller had moved but family member was living in the house for the past couple months. Behind the house, there are two vacant lots that are split, no fencing, And to the right of the house there are open lots on a somewhat mountainous terrain, about 5 acres. That fence is broken in the back of the lot to the right and can reach the other two open lots in the backAll three lots have different owners. None of the lots can be traced to the sellers of out home.
One thing that was a bit odd to us during our visit to the property once was that there was a cord from the electrical box, we followed it and saw it was going to a random outlet to an open lot behind the property. We asked sellers, and apparently the owners of the lot asked to use power but there was a “misunderstanding” and they would remove the cord. Cord has yet to be removed.
Upon visiting the house again this weekend, we saw there was a huge old (like literally beat up, falling apart) double wide on jacks on dirt about 10-12 feet from the property line. And sitting way above the top of our house. Front door facing our yard. Like they can step down and literally hop into our yard. Also this is not a double wide type of neighborhood. These are all custom built homes in the area. Upon looking up permits for that particular parcel, we found that there were two permits pulled, mitigation for protected wildlife so they can put then double wide there, which was cleared. Also they used what would be our new address as their address for mailing on the permit. Second permit, was for site planning for the double wide, which had not been cleared yet. Meaning that they can not have that thing there…yet.
When we went up there, a new neighbor thought it was ours since they know people are moving it. We told them it isn’t ours but the neighbors are all pretty unhappy about this monstrosity being there. He also told us they have been grading for months, and surely we have seen them working. And we said no, we have never seen anyone working.
Well back to the sellers. I am not naive to think that they were never going to build on adjacent lots. I do find it VERY hard to believe they had no idea of future building on these lots so soon. Especially when they were lending out the power in their home. They claim they were told no one could build there. I find that hard to believe when someone had to have seen people grading and they literally gave their power to a lot, probably to do work.
We very much want to back out of the sale if we don’t know what the plan is for the development of the rest these lots. The owner that has the double wide on it has purchased about 6 parcels, not under an LLC/trust. All as an individual owner, I assume to not have to go through as much work to get a “development” started.
If you made it this far, thank you. What are my options? What would you do? We love this house but willing to back out if it means that our property value will drop with multiple of these mobile homes on these open parcels. (Also nothing is wrong with mobile homes/manufactered homes, this just is literally a beat up 70s style falling apart mobile home, which is essentially sitting in our front yard when you look at how close it is)
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