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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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.
March 16th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Actually, I feel sorry for the guy.
March 16th, 2007 at 9:11 am
That is hilarious!
Nice find.
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.
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.
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.
March 16th, 2007 at 7:50 am
LOL!
March 16th, 2007 at 5:32 am
According to the latest census results, most folks ARE moving to suburbia.
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