A woman accidentally bought an entire neighbourhood of more than 80 homes after an costly error was made in the paperwork for her property. The unnamed buyer, from Nevada, purchased what she thought was just one house for $594,481 (£489,617.23) in Sparks, northeast of Reno, the Daily Star reports.
But when she filed the documentation with the assessor for Washoe County on July 25, a typo in the papers meant that she had actually bought 85 properties and two common spaces - priced at an estimated $50 million (£40,865,550.00). The file named as the owner of "lots 1 through 85 … and Common Areas A and B."
Cori Burke, the chief deputy assessor for Washoe County, said that error appeared to have been made Westminster Title, a Las Vegas-based company. The blunder meant that the woman was given the title deeds for the whole neighbourhood, according to The Reno Gazette Journal.
