A one-story house on the left, and the headshot of a woman on the right.
Anne Reynolds (right) bought a property in Hawaii and later found a home was built on it.
  • Anne Reynolds purchased a vacant lot in Hawaii in 2018 from a tax auction.
  • A developer in Hawaii accidentally built a house on it instead of the neighboring lot.
  • She wants the house to be removed and the flora and fauna to be restored. Instead she got sued.

Annaleine "Anne" Reynolds had big plans for a vacant lot she purchased in 2018. Unfortunately, she was beaten to the punch when a developer built a house in it.

Reynolds bought a one-acre plot of land in Hawaiian Paradise Park, a nearly 15,000-person subdivision on Hawaii's Big Island, for $22,500 at a tax auction. Now, a house — worth just over $500,000, according to Trulia — sits vacant on the land.