Squatters occupy $500K home mistakenly built on wrong lot, and now developer is suing land's true owner

A Hawaii developer sued a property owner after a home priced around $500K was accidentally built on her vacant lot, allegedly without any notification to the landowner.

Megan Myers is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals. 

"You already make a mistake, and then you build on my land without my permission. And then now you’re suing me for it," Reynolds told the New York Post. "I was so mad. I was so mad that day … that’s a really big mistake to make."

In 2018, Annaleine Reynolds, known as Anne, purchased a vacant, one-acre lot in Hawaiian Paradise Park on the Big Island for around $22,500 at a county tax auction, according to court documents. Reynolds, who lives in California and works as a relationship coach, planned to eventually move and host meditative healing women's retreats on the lot, but was shocked to find out from a real estate broker last year that a $500,000 three-bedroom house was built and sold on her property by accident, Hawaii News Now reported.