Half a house!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

An Australian man says he nearly fainted when work finally finished on his custom-built home and he realized he really only had “half a house”.

Bishnu Aryal, who moved to Sydney from Nepal, reportedly saved for 10 years to buy a plot of land in Edmonson Park for AUS$398,950 ($388,400). In 2016, he hired Zac Homes to build him a detached home for AUS$322,400 ($313,900), news.com.au reports.

What he got is a strange-looking structure with a blank grey wall on its left side where windows or another house should be.

“It’s not a freestanding house, it’s not a duplex, it’s half a house. And it looks embarrassing,” Aryal told A Current Affair. “They were promising us the house will be ready in one year time, but we wait for three long years. When we come to see the progress of the building, we see our building was different to what we were expecting.”

https://vancouversun.com/news/world/australian-man-nearly-fainted-when-he-realized-he-paid-700000-for-half-a-house/wcm/ca8852eb-13e5-419a-b5e9-cdd4294ee384

[Rorey]

1. If I was spending $700,000 dollars on something, I'd read the contract

Three years to build a normal house is ridiculous too.

One of my sons had a house built a couple of years ago. He informed me (!!!) that he and his family were going to move in with me for three months while their new house was being built. I loved having them live with me, but I knew right at the start that it was going to take way longer than three months. It took nine months from breaking ground to move-in.

Bonus: It's a whole house, and absolutely beautiful.

[wendyb-NC]

2. That's surreal.

That poor man, and his wife, he needs a good lawyer. I hope that House builder is held to account. That is a hefty price to pay the product he received. What a crazy situation.