RedWolfeXR

Home values are generally based on prior sales or comparable ones, so most likely he is asking quite a bit more than it cost to build. Most likely that valuation was made based on sales of similar homes in that area. The OWNER does not set the value, the appraisal district does.

My guess is that they priced it very high expecting to get counteroffers for less.

Hmm, so they have one on Lemmon and one in Lakewood (which cost us the original Dallas location in Lower Greenville), one going in on Mockingbird at Highland Village AND now one at McKinney and Routh? Plus the new location at Park....

Personally I think they are oversaturating the marketplace. The uptown will be the closest location to me -- but when I have wanted to shop at WFM I have never been concerned with driving to Lakewood, Lemmon, or Park Lane....

Just an FYI, there is a SEAR restaurant in the Marriot Marquis in Atlanta -- probably why they named it what they did.

The racial makeup of the town was 90.24% White, 2.92% African American, 0.35% Native American, 3.05% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.77% from other races, 1.61% from two or more races, and Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.63% of the population.

Oh yeah, and the rest of it: About 2.2% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.7% of those under age 18 and 1.8% of those age 65 or over.

Like I said, the neighbors raised a hue and cry to get rid of him. He could probably get utilities turned on without much trouble if he wanted to. (unless the water dept has a bunch of those neighbors working there, anyway)

Its a sign of the changes of the last 50 years that he is still alive. 2.92% of the town is black.. that low of a statistic isn't an accident or because no black man can afford it.

Its not Highland Parks 97% white, but...

It will take as long for someone to get him out as it would take someone to foreclose on the property if he wasn't there. The average is 2-4 years, and its been 1 already.

He had nothing to do with it getting in the paper.. the neighbors did that in the quest of getting him removed. They called WFAA and the rest followed. All the media is from the crusade to get rid of him.

He has to make his claim "open and notorious" but that doesn't require press attention.

If he had a nice $100K car and/or was white it probably would not not incited the neighborhood as much.

It would take more like 10 years to claim it, and would work better if he found one where the owner died intestate but owned the house outright.

All the owner has to do is order him off the property after which its tresspassing. The adverse possesion statutes is intended for abandoned properties and fallow land. (basically land nobody is paying taxes on, and the person involved has to pay them)

Of course the neighbors protested, Flower Mound isn't the most white city in the metro but they are way up on the list.

-- three years only counts if there is a problem with conflicting titles -- as it was explained to me that means that if Spain, Mexico and Texas federal governments gave three people title to the same land... its referred to as the "color" of the document.

You can do the math as to how long ago THAT was. Most likely this guy would take 10 years. I suspect he will get at most one. (likely less, with the locals sounding willing to buy the note themselves to get him out)