{"id":87970,"date":"2019-06-16T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T18:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87970"},"modified":"2019-06-16T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T18:58:42","slug":"man-purchases-villa-ends-up-with-one-food-wide-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87970","title":{"rendered":"Man Purchases Villa, Ends up with One Food Wide Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_88057\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88057\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88057\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kerville-Holness-thought-he-was-getting-a-villa-winds-up-as-a-landowner-instead.-Google-Earth-500x281.jpg?resize=500%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kerville-Holness-thought-he-was-getting-a-villa-winds-up-as-a-landowner-instead.-Google-Earth.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kerville-Holness-thought-he-was-getting-a-villa-winds-up-as-a-landowner-instead.-Google-Earth.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kerville-Holness-thought-he-was-getting-a-villa-winds-up-as-a-landowner-instead.-Google-Earth.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kerville-Holness-thought-he-was-getting-a-villa-winds-up-as-a-landowner-instead.-Google-Earth.jpg?w=1862&amp;ssl=1 1862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-88057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kerville Holness thought he was getting a villa, the red arrow points to what he actually purchased.\u00a0 (Google Earth)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A man thought he purchased a villa for a bargain, for under $10,000. He couldn&#8217;t resist the offer, better snag it up before somebody else does. Who knows when an opportunity like this would show up again.<\/p>\n<p>He sees the picture, sees the villa, then makes his purchase. But, after the money is spent, and after he felt confident that he was a homeowner, the anticlimax hits. He realizes that he just purchased a $50 strip of land that&#8217;s 1&#8242; x 100&#8242; long.<\/p>\n<p>To add damage to injury, the strip ran underneath the villas, one of which he thought was his.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who snagged a $177,000 villa for $9,100 now believes he was scammed by the Florida county that put the property up for auction for unpaid property taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The villa turns out to be a 1-foot-by-100-foot strip of land that separates two villas in Tamarac and is worth $50, the Sun Sentinel reports.<\/p>\n<p>Broward County sold the parcel to Kerville Holness at an online auction of tax delinquent properties in March.<\/p>\n<p>The land, which holds two mailboxes, starts at the curb, goes under a wall separating the garages of two adjoining villas and then extends out to the back, the paper reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The county received its money, the villa remains with their owners, and the man who thought he had a deal was left with property valued at $50.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/man-south-florida-villa-government-auction-land\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man thought he purchased a villa for a bargain, for under $10,000. He couldn&#8217;t resist the offer, better snag it up before somebody else does. Who knows when an opportunity like this would show up again. He sees the picture, sees the villa, then makes his purchase. But, after the money is spent, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-mSS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}