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Originally Posted by RickeyD
Actually it's Levittown, but anyway you could always sell what you have and buy what you want. Trust no one, check everything.  |
Yes, I agree, I should have been more involved, but I had gotten complacent. I have been through aout 8 homes in my life. I started in NY where everyone said you should have a lawyer, so I did. Of the 4 houses there, there was never any problem. I began thinking, like a lot of people do, that lawyers were just money managers at closing. Anyway, when I moved out of NY everyone said you didn't need a lawyer for a closing, and they were right - the builders were always cooperative, the real estate people were honest, the surveys were correct and registered correctly. I even had my real estate recognize the need for a zoning variance, which she managed, and it was not an issue at closing. So I took this attitude into THE Villages closing. As I have since found out, the real estate agent was basically an employee of the developer. The surveyor either didn't look to find an existing plat, or failed to register his survey with the county, or the county failed to compare the two. If I had hired a lawyer, he/she would have caught these mistakes and would have recommended I not buy the house.