TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Donna Hartl and her husband were excited when in January they bought a vacant lot for $17,500.
The property is nestled between Islewood Drive and Richbarn Road in Brooksville.
“We really wanted to have some privacy, not be stranded out in the country,” said Donna Hartl, who moved to Florida from North Dakota. “We just felt this was the perfect match.”
The real estate listing described the property as “your dream home’s canvas.”
The couple hired a builder to draft plans and did their homework with Hernando County government.
“I was getting the green light on everything,” Hartl said. “My property was being brought up on the GIS map at the county, I got my setback, what I could and couldn’t do. I could bring a modular home in, a mobile home, or I could do a single-family residence.”
Back in January, there was a slender, wooden utility pole on the land, which they thought would sit just behind their new home.
When the couple arrived last month, they found a large concrete Duke Energy transmission pole, along with others up and down the area.
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