10-10-2017, 08:01 AM
You are correct that there is nothing about the situation that implies that there is any other motive at work.
I guess I am guilty of projecting my bias(es) on to the situation. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I apologize for implying that. It could be any number of reasons (perceived unfair market value, Libertarianism, other, no reason at all, etc.).
Expropriation sucks for the owner, and put in the same situation and circumstances I may have ended up doing the exact same thing of fighting to the bitter end.
It still strikes me as odd though that once the writing was on the wall that someone would rather spend money on lawyer's fees to get the same price (effectively reducing the "profit") over a sliver of land that functionally doesn't really change the rest of the property than to move on with their life unless they were trying to make a point, what-ever that may be, especially when "fair market value" in the last 15 months would have been higher than ever before thanks to the recent real-estate cycle.
I guess I am guilty of projecting my bias(es) on to the situation. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I apologize for implying that. It could be any number of reasons (perceived unfair market value, Libertarianism, other, no reason at all, etc.).
Expropriation sucks for the owner, and put in the same situation and circumstances I may have ended up doing the exact same thing of fighting to the bitter end.
It still strikes me as odd though that once the writing was on the wall that someone would rather spend money on lawyer's fees to get the same price (effectively reducing the "profit") over a sliver of land that functionally doesn't really change the rest of the property than to move on with their life unless they were trying to make a point, what-ever that may be, especially when "fair market value" in the last 15 months would have been higher than ever before thanks to the recent real-estate cycle.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.