How does any of this justify the county paying tenants to move out?
The county did the right thing by giving the tenants as much
notice as possible and adaquate compensation for their moving
expenses.
The
county should not interfere with a private business in such a matter.
Agreed, it
Dyna et al,
I am stunned at your comments. From what I have read, Ms. LaVanier is not
asking for a buy out. Why would you consider the government seizure of
property against an owner's will as corporate buyout?
I did not know Ms. LaVanier's original purchase price of the property.
However,
Dyna said:
Agreed, it should not be the job of government to provide
corporate welfare to bail out businesses that make dumb investments.
In the instant case, Ms. LaVanier paid $400,000 in March 2004 for a
building with a taxable market value of $284,000. This is a 8 unit
building in a
WOW! a $139,000 jump in valuation in one year? If anything, I would say
this favors the landlord.
The thing I am left scratching my head over is how someone can plunk-down
$400k for the purchase of a property and NOT know it's going to be taken for
a redevelopment project a year later.
And
She did not pull a permit for $10,000 worth of window replacements? There's
no listing of a permit being pulled.
Keith says;
And Dennis, permit or not, and even though your point is irrelevant, Jamie
had reported to me that the window replacement was BY ORDER OF THE CITY. Maybe
you would
John Harris wrote: “Dennis is just asking tough questions, not snipes, which
is good.”
Really? Lets explore the end points of Dennis’s queries:
Permits for windows. Lets assume she pulled no permits and illegally
installed windows. Or maybe she didn’t really install new windows.
