What is the name of your state? Missouri
Recently purchased property that was said to have it's own fully operational well. The day after closing we found out that the well that is on our property was mistakenly drilled out of boundaries by past owners of the vacant lot next to us. Our water is actually supplied from a neighbors well, based on a verbal agreement that was made with a previous owner of our property. We did not have an inspection done on the home. Even if we did, this information would not have been revealed as everything is underground and would take a backhoe to figure out. The neighbor who made the verbal agreement to supply water to our property filled us in on this situation. If the property did not have it's own well we would not have purchased it. We were told on numerous occasions that it had it's very own well.
Question 1: Who is the legal owner of the well that was mistakenly put on our property years ago?
Question 2: Did the owner/real estate agent error in the representation of the property? If so, what are my options to resolve this matter?
Recently purchased property that was said to have it's own fully operational well. The day after closing we found out that the well that is on our property was mistakenly drilled out of boundaries by past owners of the vacant lot next to us. Our water is actually supplied from a neighbors well, based on a verbal agreement that was made with a previous owner of our property. We did not have an inspection done on the home. Even if we did, this information would not have been revealed as everything is underground and would take a backhoe to figure out. The neighbor who made the verbal agreement to supply water to our property filled us in on this situation. If the property did not have it's own well we would not have purchased it. We were told on numerous occasions that it had it's very own well.
Question 1: Who is the legal owner of the well that was mistakenly put on our property years ago?
Question 2: Did the owner/real estate agent error in the representation of the property? If so, what are my options to resolve this matter?