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- From: manes@magpie.nycenet.edu (Steve Manes)
- Subject: Re: Neighborhood from hell
- Organization: Manes and Associates, NYC
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:54:50 GMT
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- Janet M. Swisher (swisher@cs.utexas.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Nov21.140321.5749@desire.wright.edu>
- : sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes:
- :
- : >They did not know when they moved in (the agent didn't tell them until the
- : >papers were all signed) that the plat had an owners' organization and that
- : >the Owners' Organization could make rules and regulations as to how you used
- : >your land, any modifications to the house, outbuildings, etc.
- :
- : Shouldn't this have been revealed by the title search? I don't know
- : specifically about owners organizations, but the title search on my
- : house turned up some restrictive covenants (one racial which I assume
- : is legally null, and some about building size, use and setback from
- : streets).
- : At the very least, make sure you are fully informed about such
- : restrictions before you buy.
-
- Absolutely! I had my attorney stick two pages of riders in my sales
- contract requiring the seller to reveal anything that, to his
- knowledge, might remotely place burdens on my ownership. A
- real important one is a clause requiring the seller to disclose any
- information regarding notices of environmental or zoning hearings
- pending, which would not show up in even the most painstaking title
- search. This is very important if your property adjoins any
- government-administered property, like protected wetlands.
-
- Let's say you've found a great house, surrounded by park land,
- watershed, what have you. Wonderful... no one can build around you
- and you can enjoy it as if you owned the land yourself. Not
- necessarily. If there's a public hearing scheduled to build a
- public road into that park next to your property, or the city has
- petitioned for a variance to use part of that land (next to your
- property) to dump a mountain of salt for road deicing, you could
- be snookered by a crafty seller who sees his property value in danger.
-
-
- --
- Stephen Manes manes@magpie.nycenet.edu
- Manes and Associates/Commontech-NoHo New York, NY, USA =o&>o
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