A Nevada woman bought a house and ended up owning a small town all because of a copy-paste error, report says A Nevada woman accidentally purchased a tiny town with 84 properties when buying her home. The homebuyer meant to purchase one property in Spanish Springs, the Reno Gazette Journal reported. A copy-and-paste error in the property deed is to blame, according to the Reno Gazette Journal. A woman accidentally purchased a tiny town in Nevada with 86 lots when buying her new home, the Reno Gazette Journal ''s Jason Hidalgo reports. The unnamed woman from Sparks, a city east of Reno, purchased a single-family home in Toll Brothers'' Stonebrook development in Spanish Springs that was valued at $594,481, according to data from Washoe County Assessor''s office cited in the Reno Gazette Journal''s report. She ended up with 84 additional lots and two common spaces due to a copy-and-paste error in the deed to the property, the report added. Cori Burke, chief deputy assessor for Washoe County, told the publication that a legal description from another Toll Brothers transfer appears to have been accidentally copied and pasted by the Westminster Title agency for Las Vegas.