[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
Just because some bonehead posts here that Kaplan was ripped off for $16 million does not make it true. Kaplan said all kinds of things about the TMO when he split, but being ripped off was not one of the claims -- Kaplan simply said that he was ill-treated after donating millions of dollars. He said a great deal more than he was ill treated. Aren't all the letters in the files area? JohnY Earl made it clear both publicly and to his friends that the transfering of the monies in the spiritual center acct to India was the main cause of the split and was deeply surprising and disturbing to him at the time. It's true there may have been some rumblings of dissatisfaction already due to a number of factors such as MMY turning down Earl's offer of sponsoring pundits and the reason for doing so (which has been discussed here before) - Earl did not go on the millionaires course probably for this reason. But the reports from close friends and spiritual mountain associates of Earl is that he was very much committed to the spiritual mountain project and sponsoring purusha and MD. I don't know anything direct about David's state of mind. People can believe the $16 million heist story or not based on their perceptions of MMY, but the view that the Kaplans made up the whole split as a way to justify selling the property is not viewed as true by anyone who knew them at the time. I don't know the details of the sale - if it includes all the buildings as well as land and roads, then they did not clean up with a $44 million sales price. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because some bonehead posts here that Kaplan was ripped off for $16 million does not make it true. Kaplan said all kinds of things about the TMO when he split, but being ripped off was not one of the claims -- Kaplan simply said that he was ill-treated after donating millions of dollars. He said a great deal more than he was ill treated. Aren't all the letters in the files area? JohnY Earl made it clear both publicly and to his friends that the transfering of the monies in the spiritual center acct to India was the main cause of the split and was deeply surprising and disturbing to him at the time. It's true there may have been some rumblings of dissatisfaction already due to a number of factors such as MMY turning down Earl's offer of sponsoring pundits and the reason for doing so (which has been discussed here before) - Earl did not go on the millionaires course probably for this reason. But the reports from close friends and spiritual mountain associates of Earl is that he was very much committed to the spiritual mountain project and sponsoring purusha and MD. I don't know anything direct about David's state of mind. People can believe the $16 million heist story or not based on their perceptions of MMY, but the view that the Kaplans made up the whole split as a way to justify selling the property is not viewed as true by anyone who knew them at the time. I don't know the details of the sale - if it includes all the buildings as well as land and roads, then they did not clean up with a $44 million sales price. Inever said that they cleaned up. I said that they had a buyer in- line. A sale of $44 million taking place in a period of only 3 months from the time the property legally becomes available is pretty darned unusual. While its always possible that someone just happened upon the property and made a bid and closed the deal in 90 days, more likely, the Kapplans were approached well before they got permission to make the sale. I suspect that their final decision to go public with their reservations was triggered by a solid buy inquiry. Similarly, Chopra was alreaady well-out-of the TMO for nearly a year before the TMO announced that he was gone. A canny businessman doesn't just pack his bags and leave without having something waiting for him if he can help it. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante no_reply@ wrote: A windfall for Kaplan, but also good for meditators who owned homes next to Purusha, as their home values will go up -- they can sell easily, and I bet most will head to Vedic City/FF: http://tinyurl.com/q76pg David Kaplan, the developer of Heavenly Mountain, owned the property then. When he started Heavenly Mountain in 1993, he became the largest private landowner in Watauga County, with more than 7,000 acres. On 500 acres, he built the nonprofit Maharishi Spiritual Center of America, with separate campuses for men and women who practiced Transcendental Meditation. Heavenly Mountain also included a for- profit section of about 1,000 acres that could be developed for lots and homes in the future. But in 2004, Kaplan announced that he had severed ties with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a former Hindu monk who drew from ancient Eastern techniques of meditation when he began the TM movement in 1958. In announcing his break with TM, Kaplan said he would pursue commercial development of his property. In January 2005, the Watauga County Planning Board approved Kaplan's development plans for a large section of pro-perty. Three months later, he sold the land, nearly 5,000 acres, to Ginn LA Laurel Creek Ltd. for nearly $44 million. It sounds like he may have made some money - that's good. One of the few, I'll bet. The swift way in which this deal occured makes me wonder if he had been looking for a way to unload his property for quite some time and once he found it, he coinicidentally found that the TMO was full of it... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 jyouells@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante no_reply@ wrote: A windfall for Kaplan, but also good for meditators who owned homes next to Purusha, as their home values will go up -- they can sell easily, and I bet most will head to Vedic City/FF: http://tinyurl.com/q76pg David Kaplan, the developer of Heavenly Mountain, owned the property then. When he started Heavenly Mountain in 1993, he became the largest private landowner in Watauga County, with more than 7,000 acres. On 500 acres, he built the nonprofit Maharishi Spiritual Center of America, with separate campuses for men and women who practiced Transcendental Meditation. Heavenly Mountain also included a for- profit section of about 1,000 acres that could be developed for lots and homes in the future. But in 2004, Kaplan announced that he had severed ties with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a former Hindu monk who drew from ancient Eastern techniques of meditation when he began the TM movement in 1958. In announcing his break with TM, Kaplan said he would pursue commercial development of his property. In January 2005, the Watauga County Planning Board approved Kaplan's development plans for a large section of pro-perty. Three months later, he sold the land, nearly 5,000 acres, to Ginn LA Laurel Creek Ltd. for nearly $44 million. It sounds like he may have made some money - that's good. One of the few, I'll bet. The swift way in which this deal occured makes me wonder if he had been looking for a way to unload his property for quite some time and once he found it, he coinicidentally found that the TMO was full of it... What was swift about it? Over 2 yrs since his split. The split occured due to the pilfering of $16 million that he put into the spiritual center acc't to pay for past taxes, improvements, and support for purusha and MD, so he was still very much into the project at that time. Who knows if he made money? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 jyouells@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante no_reply@ wrote: A windfall for Kaplan, but also good for meditators who owned homes next to Purusha, as their home values will go up -- they can sell easily, and I bet most will head to Vedic City/FF: http://tinyurl.com/q76pg David Kaplan, the developer of Heavenly Mountain, owned the property then. When he started Heavenly Mountain in 1993, he became the largest private landowner in Watauga County, with more than 7,000 acres. On 500 acres, he built the nonprofit Maharishi Spiritual Center of America, with separate campuses for men and women who practiced Transcendental Meditation. Heavenly Mountain also included a for- profit section of about 1,000 acres that could be developed for lots and homes in the future. But in 2004, Kaplan announced that he had severed ties with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a former Hindu monk who drew from ancient Eastern techniques of meditation when he began the TM movement in 1958. In announcing his break with TM, Kaplan said he would pursue commercial development of his property. In January 2005, the Watauga County Planning Board approved Kaplan's development plans for a large section of pro-perty. Three months later, he sold the land, nearly 5,000 acres, to Ginn LA Laurel Creek Ltd. for nearly $44 million. It sounds like he may have made some money - that's good. One of the few, I'll bet. The swift way in which this deal occured makes me wonder if he had been looking for a way to unload his property for quite some time and once he found it, he coinicidentally found that the TMO was full of it... What was swift about it? Over 2 yrs since his split. The split occured due to the pilfering of $16 million that he put into the spiritual center acc't to pay for past taxes, improvements, and support for purusha and MD, so he was still very much into the project at that time. Who knows if he made money? Sometime in 2004, he announced his split and that he was seeking to go commercial. In January of 2005 he got pernission to go commercial. Three months later, he had a deal to sell it. That's about 1 year from the announcement of his change of heart to a final sale agreement but only 3 months from the permission-graning. That's pretty darned fast for a property that sold for $44 million. He had a buyer sniffing around BEFORE he announced the split, obviously. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 markmeredith@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 jyouells@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante no_reply@ wrote: A windfall for Kaplan, but also good for meditators who owned homes next to Purusha, as their home values will go up -- they can sell easily, and I bet most will head to Vedic City/FF: http://tinyurl.com/q76pg David Kaplan, the developer of Heavenly Mountain, owned the property then. When he started Heavenly Mountain in 1993, he became the largest private landowner in Watauga County, with more than 7,000 acres. On 500 acres, he built the nonprofit Maharishi Spiritual Center of America, with separate campuses for men and women who practiced Transcendental Meditation. Heavenly Mountain also included a for- profit section of about 1,000 acres that could be developed for lots and homes in the future. But in 2004, Kaplan announced that he had severed ties with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a former Hindu monk who drew from ancient Eastern techniques of meditation when he began the TM movement in 1958. In announcing his break with TM, Kaplan said he would pursue commercial development of his property. In January 2005, the Watauga County Planning Board approved Kaplan's development plans for a large section of pro-perty. Three months later, he sold the land, nearly 5,000 acres, to Ginn LA Laurel Creek Ltd. for nearly $44 million. It sounds like he may have made some money - that's good. One of the few, I'll bet. The swift way in which this deal occured makes me wonder if he had been looking for a way to unload his property for quite some time and once he found it, he coinicidentally found that the TMO was full of it... What was swift about it? Over 2 yrs since his split. The split occured due to the pilfering of $16 million that he put into the spiritual center acc't to pay for past taxes, improvements, and support for purusha and MD, so he was still very much into the project at that time. Who knows if he made money? Sometime in 2004, he announced his split and that he was seeking to go commercial. In January of 2005 he got pernission to go commercial. Three months later, he had a deal to sell it. That's about 1 year from the announcement of his change of heart to a final sale agreement but only 3 months from the permission-graning. That's pretty darned fast for a property that sold for $44 million. He had a buyer sniffing around BEFORE he announced the split, obviously. He may have needed the $16 milliion back. Maybe the other folks were in a hurry... how can we know? It's not at all obvious. JohnY Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He may have needed the $16 milliion back. Maybe the other folks were in a hurry... how can we know? It's not at all obvious. JohnY *** Just because some bonehead posts here that Kaplan was ripped off for $16 million does not make it true. Kaplan said all kinds of things about the TMO when he split, but being ripped off was not one of the claims -- Kaplan simply said that he was ill-treated after donating millions of dollars. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 jyouells@ wrote: He may have needed the $16 milliion back. Maybe the other folks were in a hurry... how can we know? It's not at all obvious. JohnY *** Just because some bonehead posts here that Kaplan was ripped off for $16 million does not make it true. Kaplan said all kinds of things about the TMO when he split, but being ripped off was not one of the claims -- Kaplan simply said that he was ill-treated after donating millions of dollars. He said a great deal more than he was ill treated. Aren't all the letters in the files area? JohnY Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
He said a great deal more than he was ill treated. Aren't all the letters in the files area? They certainly are, letters by Earl and David both. They're in the folder TMO -- the Odd Side. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/files/ --- jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 jyouells@ wrote: He may have needed the $16 milliion back. Maybe the other folks were in a hurry... how can we know? It's not at all obvious. JohnY *** Just because some bonehead posts here that Kaplan was ripped off for $16 million does not make it true. Kaplan said all kinds of things about the TMO when he split, but being ripped off was not one of the claims -- Kaplan simply said that he was ill-treated after donating millions of dollars. He said a great deal more than he was ill treated. Aren't all the letters in the files area? JohnY Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan cleans up on Boone land sale
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A windfall for Kaplan, but also good for meditators who owned homes next to Purusha, as their home values will go up -- they can sell easily, and I bet most will head to Vedic City/FF: http://tinyurl.com/q76pg David Kaplan, the developer of Heavenly Mountain, owned the property then. When he started Heavenly Mountain in 1993, he became the largest private landowner in Watauga County, with more than 7,000 acres. On 500 acres, he built the nonprofit Maharishi Spiritual Center of America, with separate campuses for men and women who practiced Transcendental Meditation. Heavenly Mountain also included a for- profit section of about 1,000 acres that could be developed for lots and homes in the future. But in 2004, Kaplan announced that he had severed ties with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a former Hindu monk who drew from ancient Eastern techniques of meditation when he began the TM movement in 1958. In announcing his break with TM, Kaplan said he would pursue commercial development of his property. In January 2005, the Watauga County Planning Board approved Kaplan's development plans for a large section of pro-perty. Three months later, he sold the land, nearly 5,000 acres, to Ginn LA Laurel Creek Ltd. for nearly $44 million. It sounds like he may have made some money - that's good. One of the few, I'll bet. JohnY Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
