At 91 years old....take the money and go someplace tropical.
Batteries Not Included.
Here a hospital wanted to buy half of a block of residential property to expand a very needed parking lot. The difference here was this was a Baptist hospital and a little old lady who wanted to stay in her home. She sold her property to the hospital but continued to live there until she died and the the hospital tore down the house and made her lot into a little garden spot at he entrance of the parking. Funny how compassion works.....
Offer her an even million ... she might do it then ... :-) ...
"In the 1980s when she refused to move from her apartment building after it was purchased by Donald Trump. He wanted to evict her in order to tear down the building, but after going to court, she was allowed to stay. In 1998, it was ruled that Trump could turn the apartments into condos, and she was, therefore, given $750,000 compensation."
*Kelo's Little Pink House* New London, CT
This is what the piece of land that Kelo's house occupied now looks like:
After the houses were destroyed, nothing happened. No R&D complex, no gentrified condos, no influx of high-net-worth PhDs. Nothing. An empty lot with weeds
Edith Macefield Ballard, Seattle WA
I hate these new college dorms. And people wonder why they graduate with 6 figure debt. However, the developer is not kicking the woman out of the house using eminent domain. They offered her a very fair price for her home, and she didn’t take it. Now she has to live with that decision.
Six children and xxx number of grandchildren and none of them can be bothered to help maintain her house or to take her in.
And the city of Lawrence appraises her hovel for 93 grand.
Integrity abounds doesn’t it?