I wanted to be a little further from the congestion. When I looked at this land, there was nothing out here. That was an attractive thing to me. Barry H. Schwartz, executive vice president of Renaissance Housing Corp. of Reston, which sold the Ganzers their house, said his representatives would not have misled customers. He said that providing county land-use documents to buyers, as Loudoun may require, would help avoid such complaints.
Nobody wants to have mis-expectations.
Even people who have checked county land records say they've been burned. In Prince William, Ray and Stephanie Roeske found a Lake Ridge town house with a view of a hill and a clump of oak and pine trees. Ray Roeske went to county offices and looked at the site plans, which indicated the trees would remain behind his house. I didn't want to look into someone else's kitchen when I'm sitting on the deck. A few months later, the Roeskes returned from work and discovered that the trees were gone.