NJ Couple’s $2M Home Had Urine, Food In Walls, Lawsuit Says

A New Jersey couple says they didn't get what they bargained for - by a long shot - when they recently bought a luxury dwelling.

The couple said they found bottles of urine, rodents and rotten food inside the walls of their newly purchased $2 million luxury condominium in New Jersey, according to a lawsuit filed by the pair's holding company.

The couple’s holding company, Shiloh Holding, filed the suit in Hudson County Superior Court last week after they said they discovered the urine and food during renovations at the luxury unit in Weehawken, according to The Associated Press.

The urine and food were allegedly discovered by a contractor doing renovations on the couple's unit at 1200 Avenue at Port Imperial, according to nj.com. The condominium is owned by Miami, Florida-based Fortune 500 company, Lennar Corporation, and the couple moved into the condominium in March.

Philip C. Chronakis of the law firm Budd Larner said his clients are seeking up to $6 million in damages, according to the report. The couple also alleges fraud stemming from the alleged discovery that the property's advertised triple-pane, hurricane-proof windows were not actually hurricane-proof.

In the suit, Lennar acknowledged that it was "embarrassed by the situation," though the company allegedly refused to do anything about it, according to the report. "We are going to have a judge and jury tell them what to do about it."

The receptacles were discovered by a contractor, identified by The New York Post as Derrick S., who was hired to do renovations before the couple moved in.

“I notified the client I was working for … There was also food that was left in the walls. Containers [of] Chinese food with food still in it. Wrappers from cupcakes and all different stuff. The urine, [the] feces," Derrick told The Post. "To my knowledge that’s all very bad for your health. There were a lot of things I saw that [weren’t] up to code."

Photo courtesy of Budd Larner P.C