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.