AHHH... my whole post didn't come through... I will try again, because this is worth retyping to me.
The house I own and am sitting in right now is in the Subdivision of "CLARKS CREST", but when I went to sign all the papers for the closing the deed referred to "CLARK'S CREST". Turns out that there are two different subdivisions in the same county and the only difference in the name is the apostrophe. I noticed, and the Title Company was shocked! And the subdivisions are about half mile apart. I thought about asking the closing officer to give me a few hours to 'sort things out', then call a different title company to see if the seller owned the same lot in the other subdivision, and then driving by to see if I liked that house better.
Wow.
Why did the authorities allow such a thing?
I ran into something very similar to that once. I don't remember the two subs names but they were side by side and extremely similar. The title commitment provided to me for the ALTA had twice the number of easements, etc. listed as the dummy researcher didn't look at the subdivision names closely enough.
Hijack
Ask General Sherman. I think that burning courthouses was his favorite hobby.
Hijack
Was his first name Bobby?;-)
>Why did the authorities allow such a thing?
[sarcasm]
If the complaints on the forum are typical, then the authorities were too busy checking whether the lots were 0.999 or 1.000 acre, the type font, the margins, which kind of dashed lines were used, and where on the drawing the notes were located to think about the important stuff.[/sarcasm]