Chinese 'nail' homes:
Posted on 06/27/2021 3:10:34 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
...drawing comparisons to the Pixar flick “Up” in which a balloon salesman clings stubbornly to his house as skyscrapers spring up around it.
Orlando Capote told CBS4 News in Miami that his father bought the humble single-family home in 1989, after escaping Cuba and working double jobs to achieve his American dream.
“The house is my soul,” said Capote. “So what good is it to sell your soul for all the money in the world?”
Capote’s father died in 2005. He then lost his mother last year, who asked before she died that the son not sell the “family treasure.”
“This house is like a hard drive. As I look around and live in it and move through it, I relive a lot of memories. That I could not find in another house.”
The fearless Floridian not only refuses to dishonor his mother’s wishes, he’s fighting back against the developers and city hall.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“You seem angry. Strange”...Not really. You know what I’m getting at. Not enough good freepers here. You know-the ones who are first to say evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
” Another asstroll identified.” Identified? I’d like to think this stuff is what we’re all about. It’s ok to be on the sidelines but Trump is not. Call a spade a spade. And if this attitude cost him the election? People don’t like being pushed around. That’s what the Brits do.
“The guy seems to have a screw looose. He should have taken the $900k.” What if he just doesn’t want to sell?
I know a woman who was in a similar situation. Local hospital wanted to build a parking lot. Everyone but one eventually sold. Last guy got 3x what everyone else did.
I always believed that was part of the thought process behind the Kelo decision. ‘You don’t like it? Change your laws’ being the message. (Sorry not meaning to hijack the thread)
You look like an ass getting all wee weed up over Trump who is not mentioned in the article.
Top of the heap BS post.
U may have misdirected a post....
A small cheese factory (wonderful cheese!) in my family’s area of western NYS was bought out by some dairy conglomerate. Then the conglomerate immediately told the surrounding farmers they were going to expand to the farmers’ land. Families there have had the land since the 1700s and didn’t plan on giving up.
TPTB (of course) were on the big guy’s side and tried to ED the property. The residents, who normally mind their own business but love the land, unified, became activists, and the government and conglomerate finally backed down. They said they’d find other property to buy.
We’ll see what happens. The farm where my nephew works recently was bought by a larger farm entity in NY’s Southern Tier. The new owners announced that they will ONLY hire Hispanics going forward, and will be replacing current white guys. It’s a crazy world.
How do we know he doesn’t have a price? There is nothing wrong with a man making a business decision by waiting for more $$$.
Maybe he also likes the neighborhood. It is his business to sell or not to sell. To some people (like Tillman), money isn’t everything.
“You look like an ass getting all wee weed up over Trump who is not mentioned in the article.”... I brought up Trump.
“Top of the heap BS post.”...Best you can do?
“There is nothing wrong with a man making a business decision by waiting for more $$$.” Would Trump allow this person to wait it out? Did Clinton let Elian Gonzales have due process?
Rats think Trump is the devil. Too many here think he’s perfect. We must be our own worst critics and you folks look at him like the rats look at the Kenyan.
Different subject, different circumstances, ED has not been mentioned. Florida doesn’t allow it now. Trump ain’t here.
I read long ago that Mr. Garfield began his adult life planning or going to divinity school. Along the way he swerved into politics and wound up POTUS. On the day he was inaugurated his mother was said to have wept, saying how sad it was that James had stooped from preaching the Gospel, to merely being President of the United States.
This same thing happened in West Los Angeles. In the ‘90s, I think. They built, I think it was a museum or something, called the Big Blue Whale around this dinky little house. The guy just would not leave and they could not make him.
The “big blue whale” is the Pacific Design Center, built on the site that once housed the Pacific Electric Railway’s West Los Angeles carbarn.
—” saying how sad it was that James had stooped from preaching the Gospel, to merely being President of the United States.”
It’s a living.
Yup, that’s my old neighborhood. I walked by that house many times going to or from school and church. This was BEFORE Macys was built. The store was forced to build a notch in its eide to avoid the homeowner’s airspace.
Yep, after all, it is just another possession that you can’t take with you when you die.
—”. It is his business to sell or not to sell.”
Exactly right!
—””Chinese ‘nail’ homes”
Surprising to me?
I thought China was all about ‘go along to get along’?
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