“Victims of Eminent Domain Do Not “Get a Fortune””
That’s because they did not read ‘Art of the Deal’. Dopes.
Generally they don’t.
But Trump offered the widow woman $2 million. Which is a fortune.
“eminent domain”. That was so last week. We’ve already moved on to racist KKK supporter. Try to keep up.
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This is why people have maneuvered to buy up real estate in the path of government and private projects since the founding of the country.
This article is a crock.
This is the truth.
Speaking from personal experience.
Kelo (or Poletown as a similar case was known in Michigan before it was rightly overturned by a conservative court). This is another reason why I will not vote for Trump, Hillary, or Bernie under any circumstance.
We had a tract of our property taken by eminent domain.
In the 1900’s our family signed an easement for a railroad line that ran from Newport VT to Sherbrooke,PQ. The trains ran on it two times a day through the early 1980’s.
Finally, that route was eliminated and the tracks were removed.
The State of VT stepped in an declared that the track bed would be “improved” and converted into a bike path.
The landowners on that five mile stretch of property fought like cats and dogs. The land that this easement took amounted to about 100 feet beyond the “accepted” property line. Our lot was about 1,000 feet wide. This was no small piece of property. (100ft x 1,000ft).
It cost tens of thousands of dollars to fight them in court. In the end, the proposed a settlement had the state and the owners and a judge pick estimators to give us an estimated value. The picks were averaged and we got a settlement of that amount.
What was interesting was that the piece of property that I never knew as mine turned out to be the place where my “ancestor’s” workshop had been. I had dug around a little and found stuff he had invented in the 1880’s (wrenches and what not.)
In the end, we got a fair value. But I learned the ins and outs of how the “state” can just walk in and take your stuff so that Yuppies can ride their bikes through my back yard (they don’t allow snow machines in the winter) and their dogs can run unleashed and crap in my driveway.
Cruz is FINISHED, there is No path to the nomination. He tag teamed with Rubio. Get a hobby already...
It's not like this idea originated with Trump. If the compensation does not seem just, that's a problem with the courts. What constitutes "public use" has been adjudicated on a number of occasions and it turns out be a pretty broadly interpreted term.
B-A-L-O-N-E-Y. In the case of Vera Coking, she wasn't satisfied with $3 million offer for the place she bought for $20,000.
Most people get paid more than market value.
Mrs. Coking, took her greed to the max, but waited too long and finally sold for $530,000 after putting it on the market in 2011 for $5 million. She was very lucky to get that much from Carl Icahn. He then had the place demolished.
Where I live, the city decided that they needed to run a sewer and water line on the front 10’ of my property, only problem was, I had 2 trees there. They were using eminent domain and offered initially $14,000, I told them to stuff it, did some research and fought them and eventually received about $30,000 for 2 trees. Moral of the story, don’t take the first offer, in my state, if we had gone to court and the court had decided that they needed to pay more, they would have been on the hook for my attorney’s fees which would have been more than I was asking for in increased compensation. Sometimes you just have to remind them to run the numbers.
It is incredible his ignorance of our laws as well as the procedure of making our laws.
Speaking of ignorance, has anybody seen his school transcripts that contain some of those incredibly good grades he speaks of? No? Obama MKII?
No private citizen should be forced to sell their property to another private citizen for any reason even if it increases tax revenue.
Sure the government can take it for what they consider "the public good" and for what they deem "fair compensation". That's what they did in Kelo for the benefit for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Funny thing.....Pfizer never did expand onto the property and I understand have now or will be moving their headquarters overseas.
Not in Democrat-controlled government takings, they don’t. But private developers can offer more. Donald offered much, much more in his one hotly-discussed Atlantic City incident from decades ago.
Drive down virtually every street in the US, and you will see that most properties are NOT for sale. Why is that? It’s because the properties are worth more to the owners than the ‘fair market value’, which they get from en eminent domain purchase. Thus, by definition, the owners get screwed by an eminent domain takeover.
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““Victims of Eminent Domain Do Not “Get a Fortune”””
1983, Norton AFB, San Bernardino, CA, bought a bunch of homes that, under the newly designated lengthened ‘before runway crash area’, existed in a new danger area, with many of the homes built in the 1950’s.
I bought the 625 sq. ft. rancho house for $17,000.00 in 1980.
My house was one of the many that were bought under eminent domain proceedings bu the U.S. Air Force, for $38,000.00.
Making a 200% profit isn’t a ‘small fortune’ in the more powerful buying power of the dollar in the 1980’s, now is it???
I LOST a fortune being a victim of my former city’s ED process. I had 200 feet of river front on a 1 acre parcel. The city said “you didn’t build that” and took it from me to build a river front park. Turned out the city didn’t really need it and sold it for a massive profit and now the property has a multi million dollar house on the property. FU city. FU Trump for supporting ED for private use. FU Kelo Vs Conn. Everything I worked for was TAKEN because some faceless nameless bureaucrat wanted the property and the city backed him up and took it. I did not make a fortune. I got paid what THEY said was “fair” market value which was what I paid for it years prior in one of the USA’s hottest real estate market. I couldn’t buy anything in the city I lived in with the pittance they forced me to take.
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