06-25-2005, 02:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-25-2005, 02:31 AM by Rhydderch Hael.)
Doc,Jun 24 2005, 02:02 PM Wrote:If you try to charge even one penny over fair market value for your home that the business offers to give you for it, the city can turn around, seize your house from you, and in turn sell it to the business cheaper than you can, and return a full profit and then some. I just know for a fact this will be abused.Aye.
Think about it... The city being able to sell land is a fast way to fill up the city coffers with a surplus of cash.
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Pre-Thursday
"Hi! I'm an crazy Texas oil tycoon who makes eccentric purchases of homes in order to expand my burdgeoning empire of squirrel-racing tracks. I'd like you buy your 2-bedroom, 1 bath ranch home to complete the southeast corner of my latest complex."
Homeowner: "Sure! Three hundred thousand!"
Tycoon: "Sold! Here's three-twenty five. Buy yourself something with sequins and bull-horns. Yeehaw!"
Post-Thursday
"...the southeast corner, next to the nut shuffler."
Homeowner: "Sure! Three hundred thousand!"
Tycoon: "By golly! Hold on a moment" *makes a quick call on a cellphone*
Bulldozers roll in, and a car pulls up. Guy in a suit pops out.
Official: "In the interests of promoting the civic economy, we are seizing this home on a claim of eminent domain. Here's your check for one-hundred thousand dollars, and now our friendly 'relocation assistants' will transport you and your belongings to the nearest Motel 6."
Bulldozers start crunching away
Official (turning to tycoon): "My master?"
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