Cathy Lindberg Jarosz drove down the street of her newly purchased home but could not find her house.
Lindberg, a lawyer from Maryland, had purchased the home in Destin, Florida, in April 2023 to be closer to her daughter who had just had a baby. She turned the house over to contractors for a couple weeks so they could do renovations on the home while she was on vacation. When she returned, she expected to find her new home ready to settle into, but this was far from the case.
“I drive to the house and see all this trash and debris and stuff, bad landscaping—really no landscaping on this house,” she told Independent Women’s Features.
“I drive by it and I go, ‘God, where’s my house?’ You know, it was a new house,” Lindberg recalled. “So I go back and forth, trying to look for my house number, and I realized that thing is mine!”
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