$40,000.
Those regulations effectively gutted the value of the Murrs’ property. The property was appraised at $400,000 before the Murrs tried to sell it. When the family came to the county, now the only eligible buyer, the county offered $40,000.
The property was appraised at $400,000 before it was discovered that because of regs put in place 20 years after they bought the two lots, the only legal buyer, the county, offered them only $40,000, take it or leave it.