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owner / developer standoff.

Looking for a nice hill-top home? How about this one that stands alone in the middle of a 30 foot deep pit in Chongqing City China? The owner wants the equivalent of just under 3 million dollars CAD$ or he’ll ’stay until the end of the world’.

The developer is using the time-tested ‘dig a giant hole around your house’ bargaining technique to encourage the owner to accept a lower price.

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9 Responses to “owner / developer standoff.”

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    djmk Says:
    March 15th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
    i bet bob rennie could of talk him into selling that land and then sold it back to him with granite counter tops and a yale town lifestyle.

    remember: be bold or move to suberbia

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    Swirlyman Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 5:32 am
    According to the latest census results, most folks ARE moving to suburbia.

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    Paul Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 7:50 am
    LOL!

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    Warren Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 7:57 am
    Any idea what the developer is offering? It would be classic if they were 3% away from each other.

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    betamax Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 8:03 am
    LOL. Reminds me of years ago, in Texas, I visited a large shopping mall and, right in the middle of the asphalt parking lot was someone’s house with a little lawn and white picket fence around it.

    I guess sometimes they just refuse to sell.

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    the pope Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 8:49 am
    betamax: Here’s another house isolated in a parking lot in san jose, Ca.

    I also remember hearing about a feud in San Franscisco where the guy who owned the land around the guy who wouldn’t sell built a 50 foot high concrete grudge wall around three sides of the isolated property eclosing it in a dark chimney.

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    Pondering Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 9:11 am
    That is hilarious!

    Nice find.

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    vineland Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 11:42 am
    Actually, I feel sorry for the guy.

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    exvancouverite Says:
    March 16th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
    “Actually, I feel sorry for the guy.”

    Gee, do ya think?

    It’s not like there’s any kind of obsessive/compulsive disorder going on, or anything weird like that. It’s called property rights.

    Kind of sad, in a way.

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