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Sydney man turns up to find home demolished instead of house next door
Topic Started: 8 Dec 2016, 03:08 PM (2,744 Views)
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Sydney man turns up to find home demolished instead of house next door

Dec 8, 2016, Kate Burke

A Sydney businessman has returned to his Bankstown property to find it in pieces, in a terrible mix-up that saw a demolition company knock down the wrong home.

A series of unfortunate mishaps 15 years in the making, led to Steve Ballas getting a call on Wednesday morning from a friend, to say his three-bedroom property was being demolished.

“A friend of mine drove past and rang me up to ask if I was demolishing…I thought he was joking at first,” the Bankstown Gun Shop owner told Domain. “Then I realised he wasn’t and I ran out of the shop, leaving a work colleague in charge.”

By the time he got to the vacant property, which he had been fixing up to rent out next year, workers from Daniel’s Demolitions were half way through knocking it down.

Not wanting to approach the workers in case a confrontation ensued, Mr Ballas said he contacted police and Canterbury Bankstown Council, to report that his house was being knocked down without his permission.

Read more: http://www.domain.com.au/news/bankstown-businessmans-home-accidentally-demolished-in-terrible-mixup-20161208-gt6k8c/
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Sounds a bit strange.
Demolition guys only spoke with client via email, and numerous adjoining letterboxes were incorrectly numbered, and allegedly so for decades!

Wonder if anyone will get to the bottom of it. Maybe the insurance company will probe further.

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Reminds me of when the wife and I built our first home, and several people in the street were building too. Some tradies turned up at our neighbour's unfinished house and built a small but very nice stone retaining wall in their back yard. Turns out the tradies got the address wrong. They asked the neighbours to pay, but they refused, and suggested the tradies take their wall back if they were unhappy, but to be sure to return the yard to previous condition.

Mistakes happen, I guess. Having done quite a few renovation projects it's clear to me that most tradies aren't being paid for their brains.
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I did a certIII in earthmoving operations (Rangeland Conservation (with a bulldozer! lol)) and it was drummed into us again and again, check, double check and triple check-in you are in the right place, and you have the owners permission to be there, and undertake the work you are going to do.

Not doing so exposees you to massive risks, ie, your insurance company will want to know about your policies and procedures when shit goes pear shaped. Where is the signed authorisation to enter the property and undertake they works? Even for the adjoining property where work was suppose to occur, it sounds like there was no face to face meeting, and everything was carried out over email.

What would have happened if one of the staff, or a third party were injured during this unauthorised, and possibly illegal operation.

The business may not be covered for damages in this instance.
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An absolute stroke of good luck if you ask me.

The owner had a crappy old house needing a complete renovation, but now he has a vacant block of land with an insurance payout to build a new home. His dreams have been answered.

Genius. How do I get in touch with that demolition crew.
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9 Dec 2016, 11:01 AM
An absolute stroke of good luck if you ask me.

The owner had a crappy old house needing a complete renovation, but now he has a vacant block of land with an insurance payout to build a new home. His dreams have been answered.

Genius. How do I get in touch with that demolition crew.
I wonder if the insurance company is thinking what I'm thinking
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According to Golly and Rastus, the bank will now call in the loan due to a material adverse fall in value.
Banks can't repossess your home simply because the market value falls. Australia's Consumer Credit Code says consumers aren't liable for things ordinarily outside their control and can't be held to obligations that could only be met by selling their home. Click for details.

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9 Dec 2016, 12:42 PM
According to Golly and Rastus, the bank will now call in the loan due to a material adverse fall in value.
If there is a loan against the house, the insurance should be assigned to the bank. They have that right as mortgagee.
The bank will decide what to do with the insurance payout. Mostly they will be happy to see a new house built in place of the crappy old one.
Whether they control the funds and progress payments will depend on their security position and past loan conduct.

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According to Golly and Rastus, the bank will now call in the loan due to a material adverse fall in value.
Well see what the insurance company does, but yes, I'd expect that the bank had taken an active interest in the matter.

You don't think they have /will?
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