A small city in Florida accidentally sold its water tower.
Bobby Read, a business owner in Brooksville, purchased a municipal building at the base of the city’s water tower for $55,000 in April, intending to turn it into a personal training studio.
But when he went to the county property appraiser’s office to get an address for the building, he was informed he was also the proud new owner of thousands of gallons of water, NPR detailed in a Tuesday report.
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“I immediately went through the necessary steps to deed the water tower back to the city of Brooksville,” Read said in an email to the outlet. “The city’s intention was to sell me a split section of the parcel with a small garage.”
A mix-up in the legal description of the property led the water tower to be considered part of the deal.
“If there was any error, it was on my part,” Mark Kutney, the Brooksville city manager, said. “I should have looked at it more closely because that’s where we dropped the ball.”
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Read owned the tower for more than a week but did not have keys or access to the property during that time.
“The mistake happened, but you know, when the mistake happens, you just correct it, and you carry on,” Brooksville Mayor Pat Brayton said.
