But the government did have to pay you some semblance of realistic value, right? Or no?
The government paid “fair market value” as they determined. Not the out of control real estate market. I barely had enough for the down payment on the new house. It was only a few bucks more than the assessed value. I paid 36k and got 56k (six year later) from our glorious government overlords. The same properties that weren’t taken in that neighborhood were selling close to 500k when I lost mine and are now in the 800k to 1 million range.