Posted on 01/23/2016 10:01:45 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
If you can be forced to sell your property to the highest bidder what the hell’s left of private property rights?
Yes, it is as simple as that.
I would be against that. because moving from one house to another is not cheap and requires lot of work to pack and unpack.
But I would gladly go along with confiscating any house if the owner was paid AT LEAST 35% over and above market value of an average house.
Well that’s another debate...
I tend to agree with you on that front.
But being forced to the sell to the highest bidder is far worse.
"Adexposing how Trump has used eminent domain to bulldoze an elderly woman's home to create a limo parking lot" https://t.co/zK7wI1QQUC— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 22, 2016
It didn’t matter what she and her husband paid for their boarding house in 1961. It mattered what the current market value was in 1993.
Alaska doesn’t have property taxes?
Ted Cruz tweets lie - see post 125.
I will say whatever I want when it comes to liberals including Trump. The “power brokers” cry if they want to.
We talked about this. The video is factual. The tweet isn’t.
I want an "80% rule".
If the government assesses your real estate for X dollars, you should be able to hand them the keys for 80% of X dollars.
Pigs will fly first.
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Please direct me to something that explains your comment about Prop 187, Ted Cruz and Bush.
Eminent reclaim?
Only in a few of the larger cities.
In most of the rest of the state - you buy it outright, it's YOURS.
No government gunthugs coming around to tell you to pay the King's Rent.
If you can be forced to sell your property to the highest bidder what the hellâs left of private property rights?
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No. It is not that simple. In order to succeed in an eminent domain suit the govt, has to show a substantial governmental interest in its acquisition. Obviously, the court did not find the substantial interest here and the suit failed.
Developers, rarely use eminent domain because it is too expensive to the developer. Often, like in the recent Lakewood case, it is the politicians who push eminent domain to create jobs and tax base.
It is cheaper and easier just to make an offer on the property directly to the owner and save the legal fees. Multiple appraisals are required in these cases to get to the proper value and the property owner will bring in their appraiser as well.
If you read the articles, by all accounts, Trump made a purchase offer prior to the suit.
Tone deaf Trump is honest about how things work in DC. Sad but true.
I have LOTS of property, and it's all paid off.
It's the weirdest thing, though - I get these letters twice a year claiming that I have to pay somebody, or they're going to take THEIR land back from me.
I get confused by that.
Maybe I should move to Alaska.
After decades of happily running her boarding home, Ms. Coking was eventually relegated to the ground floor before her family moved her out. Now 91, she lives at a retirement home in the San Francisco Bay Area near her grandson, Ed Casey. He has been trying to sell the property since she moved out in 2010, initially putting it on the market for $5 million....Mr. Casey said the most he remembered Mr. Trump offering was $1.9 million...now the property will go up for auction. The reserve price, or the lowest the seller will accept, is $199,000.
Furthermore, the constitution says the land “private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
The land was assessed in 1996 for $251,000 and Trump offered $1.900,000. That is definitely not Trump “stealing the property.” Vera most likely of diminished mental capacity and got punked by her attorney.
No, you don't own real estate property.
The last thing about condemnation is that each state has its own code and caselaw. The only time federal law comes in is when it is the federal government that wants to E.D.
Plus the property owner typically gets the property valuation based upon highest and best use if the zoning is achieved. For many property owners, its the financial equivalent of a lottery ticket.
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