• News
    • Tech News
    • AI
  • Gadgets
    • Apple
    • iPhone
  • Gaming
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
  • Science
    • News
    • Space
  • Streaming
    • Netflix
  • Vehicles
    • Car News
  • Social Media
    • WhatsApp
    • YouTube
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
TikTok
Snapchat
WhatsApp
Submit Your Content
Man returns home to land he bought in 1991 to find someone's built a $1.5 million house on it

Home> News

Published 11:06 29 May 2024 GMT+1

Man returns home to land he bought in 1991 to find someone's built a $1.5 million house on it

This would be a good way to spoil your homecoming.

Prudence Wade

Prudence Wade

There are homecoming surprises and there are homecoming surprises, and this one might just take the cake - a man returned to the land he'd owned for decades only to discover that someone else had built a huge house on it.

Dr Daniel Kenigsberg, the land's original owner, didn't hang about and fairly quickly filed a lawsuit about the issue when he came back to a plot of land in Connecticut he'd owned since 1991 to find it had a nearly-finished four-bedroom home in construction on it.

According to his lawsuit, Dr Kenigsberg had 'no desire to sell the Property nor to construct any buildings whatsoever on the Property, but rather he had a long-term plan of passing the Property to his heirs in the future in its unimproved condition'.

Kenigsberg is now based in Setauket, New York state. His parents bought a house in Connecticut in 1953, and Kenigsberg eventually took possession of this vacant plot next to that home in 1991, intending to be able to pass both on to his children and grandchildren when he died.

Advert

Travelpix Ltd / Getty
Travelpix Ltd / Getty

Instead, in 2022, he found the new home - which was reportedly listed online as being worth some $1,475,000.

A little digging made it somewhat clear what had happened. That same year, a company called 51 Sky Top Partners LLC was under the impression that it had bought the relevant land for $350,000.

However, given that Kenigsberg says he knew nothing about this, it would seem that some documents might have been forged or falsely signed during the process.

Advert

Kenigsberg is therefore suing both 51 Sky Top Partners LLC and an attorney who he alleges falsified those documents.

Much of this hinges on an apparent power of attorney document supposedly signed by Dr Kenigsberg in Johannesburg, South Africa. The lawsuit states: 'Dr Kenigsberg has never lived in Johannesburg, South Africa and was not traveling there in 2022.'

krisanapong detraphiphat / Getty
krisanapong detraphiphat / Getty

In fact, things are looking pretty sour for 51 Sky Top Partners as a result of this whole sticky mess - a statement provided to Connecticut news site CT Insider made this clear. It said: "We learned to our shock and dismay that Dr Kenigsberg, had not, in fact, sold the property to us. Rather, a third-party had impersonated Dr Kenigsberg and - through the carelessness and neglect of the various real estate professionals involved in the transaction - managed to list, market, and sell the property without anyone ever catching on."

Advert

Now, multiple of the involved parties are cooperating with authorities in an investigation into what's happened, but who knows how long it'll take before the mess is sorted out.

Featured Image Credit: Daniel Kenigsberg/Google Maps
News

Advert

Advert

Advert

Choose your content:

7 hours ago
8 hours ago
  • 7 hours ago

    Officials confirm plans to rebuild world's largest plane set to cost $3,000,000,000

    The aircraft was destroyed when Russia invaded Ukraine

    News
  • 8 hours ago

    Stunning 2019 Bitcoin graph shows how much money it would have made you compared to normal stocks and shares

    A $1,000 investment in Bitcoin made in 2019 has outperformed every major traditional asset

    News
  • 8 hours ago

    This $70,000,000,000 Trump move just propelled AI stocks to historic highs

    The AI sector just got its biggest boost yet from the Trump administration

    News
  • 8 hours ago

    Tesla slammed after launching 'dystopian' diner in the middle of Hollywood

    Elon Musk has described the diner as 'one of the coolest spots in LA'

    News
  • Man returns home to land he bought in 1991 to find someone's built a $1,500,000 house on it
  • Huge new update to man who returned to land he bought in 1991 to find a $1.5m house built on it
  • Man shocked as he returns home he'd owned for 30 years to find someone else living there
  • Woman shocked to find $500,000 property built on land she purchased for $22,000