did you ever have an appraisal done on your house? Maybe you should go review how those things work. Fair market value is based on the market. Given that the market is determined by what people are willing to pay (not some abstract estimate of what “land” is worth), the market should have been set by what Trump and Guccione offered.
Face it, they were trying to screw her.
No, they were trying to expedite the process by paying her a lot more than it was worth.
And, no what a person might have offered in the past is not relevant to an appraisal. Only recent sales that were actually consummated.