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Dear HRM, you told me my property was residential use after I applied for commercial use. I sold the property at a reduced value as residential. Now there is a big ugly business there? Please explain. Are they blowing the right person in there? —No BJs From Me
This article appears in Apr 12-18, 2012.
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Did you apply to have your property re-zoned?
You can do that y’know. 😉
Perhaps the new owner followed the correct procedure to have the property zoned appropriately…….. something you failed to do.
Did you purchase this property in the hopes it would be commercial? Maybe you should have had that paperwork completed before signing the deed.
Your loss ……..
Well OB since no one else who has so far replied, bothered to read your bitch.
You applied for commercial status & were told “no its residential”
Did you seek to appeal that ?
Do you have proof that you tried to get a commercial permit for the property, & it was turned down ?
IF you have anything at all in writing, that you can use as proof that you have suffered loss because of this, then you may have grounds to sue over your loss. If not you are out of luck & chalk it up to something learned.
i guess you got the jerry reed song. you know,” they got the goldmine, and you got the shaft”.
Actually, More-on, the way OB made it sound was that they applies to run a business in their location, not to re-zone the property.
Two vastly different things.
does this mean I can take a house and apply for it to be commercial and, once approved, try to sell it as such for an inflated rate?
I’m actually quite out of the loop when it comes to real estate…
Still, they should have suggested the possibility of re-zoning if he couldn’t convert his property from residential to commercial. Either way, HRM slipped up. OP’s got a case.