Posted on 08/13/2016 10:25:38 AM PDT by RightGeek
Hundreds of Texas residents, many elderly and on fixed incomes, will have to move from the land they've been leasing for decades thanks to a billionaire who bought the land and is forcing everyone off of it.
Los Angeles Rams billionaire owner Stan Kroenke - who also owns north London football team Arsenal - bought up 535,000 acres of legendary ranch land near Lake Diversion outside of Wichita Falls in February, reports Dallas News.
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The Cara Blanca Park land had been in the Waggoner family, which established the property 164 years ago. The family then leased the land near the northern part of the lake in plots to hundreds of residents, who paid for homes.
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An eviction notice sent to the residents posted on a GoFundMe account says they must be off the land by January 31, 2017.
Kroenke says he wants to return the land to its original 'natural, uninhabited landscape to support and improve the microecosystem' read the eviction notice.
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Well...they own it. It’s their’s to do with as they please.
Now the only question is whether the leases have expired or not.
Hope those homes have tires.
What a dumb@$$. Just another rich lib. Nature is more important than people.
A slight revision...
Well, if it’s legal, that’s it. The previous owner could have sought to structure protection for the leaseholders in the sale, but ofc that would have lowered the sale price, if the Kroenke had been willing to consider it at all. Never a good idea to rely upon a lease when putting your own money into a property!!
Unless it was a 99 year lease, why would you build a house on it? Also, while I suspect they haven’t a leg to stand on, would they not be able to squat, having improved the property? They make this guy sound like a mean nasty ogre, and while he may be exactly that, if he bought the land legally then it should be his to do as he pleases.
It figures there’d be a Walton in the mix.
So? It’s his land. Last time I checked, we still had property rights, though I question for how much longer.
There are no “property rights”.
Old man Kroenke: “Get off of my [535,000 acre] lawn!”
I would much rather see eco nazis buy up land they want to protect than to fund politicians to change the law to impose some eco-tyranny fitting w/their religion.
This one will be going to court and I have no idea who might win.
It is possible that the letter sent was sent to try and get everyone to move by intimidation and it might not fly in a Texas court of law. It depends on how the lease was written.
He may end up buying everyone out. Expensive but probably a fully developed plan b.
This one will be going to court and I have no idea who might win.
It is possible that the letter sent was sent to try and get everyone to move by intimidation and it might not fly in a Texas court of law. It depends on how the lease was written.
He may end up buying everyone out. Expensive but probably a fully developed plan b.
Don’t build your house on rented land.
A lot of truth there.
Who owns the land? Sounds like the rich guy does. Get off his land.
He owns the land and any improvements on it.
Just because something is legal to do doesn’t mean it is good or beyond critique.
People sometimes can be convinced to view things differently or change their mind.
The nooz says “...hundreds of Texas residents, many elderly and on fixed incomes, will have to move from the land...”. “Fixed income” is a dog whistle for the parasitic takers. Tough cookie. Find another land to squat.
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