If a big tech company wants to buy your land – stick with it.
Downey and Kathy Fulbright lived a simple life with a meager income.
They own a medium-sized house in a very rural area of North Carolina.
Their house covers an acre.
Apple is building a huge data center nearby and needs the land. They sent a representative to approach the couple to make the sale.
The couple is not interested. They have been living there for decades and intend to retire there.
The representative offered a premium for their land.
They said no. Then Apple gave them more money. They said no. This continued until Apple paid them $1.7 million in property. (Source: Apple Preps for NC Data Center Launch, which paid the couple $1.7 million for 1 acre of land.) Slivka，Eric）
The objective valuation of the Fulbright family is $181,700.
After selling the house, they used their income to buy a larger house on 50 acres of land.
If you're wondering what a data center is for, it's to save music and video content. As a result, Apple may somehow add $1.7 million to your membership fee.
I know there were times when it didn't work, the landowner was thought to be peeing and the land was forcibly bought (I admit that if it were a private company as a buyer, it could not be forcibly bought).
On the M62 motorway between Yorkshire and Lancashire in England, there is a house in the middle of the highway. The alleys were on either side of his house.
My dad thought this guy was a hero for refusing to move, but it wasn't. He insisted on more money, but in the end the highway builders just wanted to your guys, leaving him where he was and building around him.
If he really did it just to be embarrassed, like my dad thought, then he would wait for them to build around him and then build his house farther to the left side of the valley.
Another forced purchase is where the center of operations of my police force is located, and they need to expand significantly. Eventually, they forcibly bought the surrounding farmland, and the farmers hoped to stick with it to make more money.
The last is farmland purchased for millions of dollars to build a European port hub in Normanton. However, he may have accepted the offer for the land, and the price of the farmland was good, which made him a rich man.
