Mysterious land trust behind backyard property dispute once bought a private, dead-end road

It is illegal to not disclose property information to new home owner purchases. That attorney should be investigated on fraud, and disbarred.

The title company should be held liable for the backyard one.

The city/county is complicit in this fuckery. They ought to be sued.

They used to call that extortion. I would look into squatters rights and easements.

Lol it must be the lawyer’s company

The city development board should be held accountable! They should not have allowed this when the property was originally developed

What's shameful is the county assessor that let's this happen

Good Lord and I thought Home Owners Associations were bad, takes the cake!

Can’t deny access to other people’s property, they have easement rights on that piece of road

Something needs looking into. Here in Florida the seller of land cannot landlock any property it sells. They have to provide access.

When you buy a house get the land surveyed. If you find a commonly used accessway is not yours or is not public property, either do not buy that property or apply for an easement.

I think I’m gonna name my next trust “the mysterious land trust”.

If the private road had easements, they couldn’t build on it.

Bet the attorney is his own client. Who wants to start off with the first lawyer joke? 😏

There's always a crook looking to take advantage of others. The "mystery" Trust purchased both properties knowing this would harm the homeowners at some point. Legal or not, they went into this with bad intentions. Clearly they knew this was dirty otherwise why would they hide their identities?

The case with the road shows the stupidity of the local state and council laws as in my state there's a legal requirement for all properties to have access to a public road. In many cases this means legal access over a private road on private property and that access can not be interfered with. In the great majority of cases these situations result from someone sub-dividing the property. I'd look into the ownership history of the land the houses off the road are on. Here, if you sub-develop and area and sell house blocks off a road you put in to give access to those lots once you have more than two properties you're required by law to cede ownership of the private road to the local authorities for them to make it a public road. The fact that private road was never made a public road means that whoever did the subdivision and advertised the lots for sale committed a fraud. The county are also at fault and should be sued for putting the access road up for tax sale instead of sub-summing it into their public road system.

So no one who bought a home here looked at the land survey? #bs, they didn't want to look or the title company didn't do their job.

I remember when this happened. Don’t remember them taking a video of the road tho. We all were dumbfounded when we got letters in the mail and all pitched in to buy it back. My grandmas house has been there since 1973 so it was a little of a shock.

Our last house was a new single family home development with an existing older home whose owner used to own the entire parcel. Behind our house and three others was a 16 foot strip of land that blended into our properties at the back end. No fence or anything and most people did not understand that it wasn't theirs. One guy cleared his and then he went hog wild and cleared the land beyond it and pissed off an old lady that lived back there. People are so clueless about property ownership. The guy across the street from me was an HOA Karen type personality and wanted me to clear the vegetation in the portion of the 16 foot strip behind my home but I refused and he had to suck it up as the strip was not a part of the HOA common area nor was it mine (but I did get to enjoy additional screening vegetation and standoff from the older home behind us). The builder acted strangely unaware of this strip of land that went all the way to an adjacent new development project further away and it was uniquely left off their land acquisition and was originally a planned private road that was never built (made me suspicious). I suspected someone had it earmarked for purchase to erect potential 5G cell towers right behind out 1/4 acre lot homes. But since we moved I don't have to worry about it anymore. No one spelled it out for me either - I had to study the survey, the plat for the development and the county tax records to see that this strip of land was owned by a holding company (a bank), not mine, not the HOA or the people behind us.

The real estate agencies should have made sure the property survey was clear and clean and the land was there prior to selling