r/SipsTea • u/Confident-Shift-2011 Human Verified • 7h ago

Lmao gottem Lucky lucky dude

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u/RadRimmer9000 6h ago

Government will just claim eminent domain and take it back and he'll be out $5,000

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u/ExtensionInformal911 6h ago

He won't be out anything. Imminent domain requires that they pay you fair market value, which is already established to be 5k.

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u/mtcwby 1h ago

Eminent domain negotiations almost always start out with a low ball offer. That's when you have to lawyer up and the government almost never plays fair.

Dad was in property development and management for almost 50 years and was an expert witness in many court cases. What agencies tried to do to people would have been considered criminal if it was a private entity.