Despite being out of pocket for $75,000, an 88-year-old disabled veteran was able to hold on to his valuable Morrisville property after he had agreed to sell it to a direct home buyer, his attorney reports. Paul Stam of ...

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Plaintiff owns a private, non-navigable lake and performed extensive work on the lake with the expectation that adjacent landowners would join the plaintiff’s fishing club and pay annual dues of $500 if they desired to fish on the lake. Nevertheless, ...

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Even though both the defendant-county and the proposed intervenor-neighbors want to see the county’s uniform development ordinance (UDO) enforced, the neighbors have private interests which the county does not seek to protect. Moreover, the county and plaintiff have already engaged ...

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According to plaintiff, her childless and widowed brother willed a condominium to her and a house to his sister-in-law. After learning that his sister-in-law preferred the condo, the decedent decided the women could switch, and he deeded the condo to ...

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In a real property investment scheme, the defendant-seller did not communicate directly with the plaintiff-buyers, and plaintiffs’ syndicator did its own due diligence and reached different conclusions from the seller as to the likelihood that a major tenant would renew ...

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The plaintiff-homebuyer sufficiently stated a claim for unfair trade practices against defendants who allegedly negligently built and sold her a house but failed to notify her of the defective conditions in the house. We dismiss plaintiff’s appeal of the dismissal ...

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Once defendant received title to a planned community’s common area, defendant became a member of the community’s homeowners association; accordingly, he can challenge the association board’s standing to file suit against him. Where the association’s board did not follow the ...

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The plaintiff-borrower alleges that the defendant-bank was negligent in failing to discover and inform him that the appraisal of the house he planned to build was inflated; however, plaintiff has not sufficiently alleged that he justifiably relied on the appraisal ...

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Plaintiffs, who have property on the sound side of the Town of Topsail Beach, are worried that, because the town has repealed its Dune Protection Ordinance, the town will allow development on oceanfront lots, increasing the potential for flood damage ...

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Holding: Plaintiffs, who have property on the sound side of the Town of Topsail Beach, are worried that, because the town has repealed its Dune Protection Ordinance, the town will allow development on oceanfront lots, increasing the potential for flood ...

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