Greed: Do you have a price?

Say you grown up in a house that your grandparents grown up in and your kids grown up in. The taxable value of property lets say is 70,000. A land development wants the house the house to build a shopping mall and they offer you 200,000

But you have lifetime of family history there. Do you put a price tag on memories?

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WillaKissing · 56-60, M

Hmm, there is not price tag for the memories made. Those we take to our grave. Places can be sentimental and hard to part with. But if they upped the money more with the price of real estate today say $400,000 then I would sell them the place and find a new one to make more memories at and hand my kids a better future home than the one I had. Once you're dead they will probably sell it anyways.

HumanEarth · F

Like they want my daughters neighbors house. Her great grandpa built that house and the whole family lived there for generations and they have plans to will it to the next

WillaKissing · 56-60, M

@HumanEarth That is a different scenario than how I read your initial post. If Grand Pa built it like I have built mine that adds more to the situation and then I would not sell.

catastrophecarnival

I see it both ways ...

It's a house ...it's a thing ...but it's a house with memories you're attached to

Your attachment is to the memories..it's fine
..you will always have the memories but taking the money wouldn't hurt either ...maybe use it to get another place and save the rest or whatever ...

That's a tough choice to make ...depends on many things too

Locke ·

I had a home like that. It was lost by my parents, and just as I was in a position to take it back, it and the rest of the street were destroyed to make a new motorway.

MarineBob · 56-60, M

For me yes as my state just cancelled the capital gains taxes

WillaKissing · 56-60, M

Now the farm I have will go int a family trust and not able to be sold.

HumanEarth · F

Well it use to be a farm, but the city built around the home.

HumanEarth · F

Its actually the oldest building in the city. I talked them on the phone and told them get a lawyer and try to get the place marked as a historical landmark

WillaKissing · 56-60, M

@HumanEarth That is what I thought when you said oldest building in the city, and get a hold of the news to place pressure on the city to grant that stauts too.

Madmonk · M

Not for that. No

SmileOnYourBrother

I wouldn't sell, but not because of family history. I just hate big corporations run by "corpholes".

Jenny1234 · 56-60, F

Don’t take their first offer

HumanEarth · F

I told them to contact a lawyer and try to get the place marked as a historical landmark. It the oldest building in the city. It used to be a farm and the city built up around the place.

The place in the family for generations and was built by their great grandpa

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