‘Sell or you get pushed out.’ Some Texas property owners face 14-day eminent domain deadline
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next city over did eminent domain on a few houses next to local university. they kicked out four families. paid slightly better then regular price, they demolished houses, and then let is set for 9 years. and then canceled the plans to expand on to it, and sold it for huge gain to a developer. leaves a bad taste in mouths of the families they forced off.
Yep. It sure seems like an intentional land grab to flip for big profits huh
Wow that is messed up. Like how is that even legal if they didn’t even use it
@@johnathanwilliams2913 Because the same people who make our laws and rule in our courts are in part responsible for this.
Omg
They did the same thing here in Phoenix back in the 80's. Bought a bunch of houses for an East-West freeway throught the middle of the valley. Freeway never got built, but they kidked all of those homeowners off of their property. The people you elect don't have your best interests at heart.
I have no skin in this game but I’ll always side with land owners. I think the state should have to pay double or triple the lands value if it’s going to use eminent domain.
At least
That should be the law!
this is the government wanting to control the citizens instead of the way it was intended when the country was founded. how can this guy sit and say i will tell you what the land is worth and then pay that amount and take it. if i own something i should be able to sell it for my price, including land. we see homes sell for several times what they are worth because some company needs it or someone decided they couldn't live with out it.
The people get paid , it's not just taken.
@@28704joepaid less than what it’s worth. The “market value”’they us in the tax assessment which is always lower than what you could get selling it.
If they have not even approved the project, they can push the owner off of the property and some politician can sell it to a friend/developer! It's been done before!
It's corruption!
100% inaccurate statement. I was a real estate appraiser for 30+ years in D/FW area and did quite a few eminent domain appraisals for various agencies including a significant area surrounding D/FW airport in mid to late 80s. Remember Walker-Texas Ranger episode where the crazy guy blew up an entire neighborhood of houses? A appraised all of those houses a few months earlier!. Eminent domain appraisals are not like any other real estate appraisals in that they include not only current Market Value (Before the Taking) but ALSO the Market Value (After the Taking) that would include added value BECAUSE of the fact that a major highway would likely enhance future commercial, retail or industrial development value because of Highest and Best Use of at least a part of each property like these current residential/agricultural tracts. The appraisals are 100% unbiased toward either the "buyer" or the "seller" and often actually end giving the property owners far more money OVER the appraised value because the "govt" does want to be overlay fair to that owner/taxpayer. They also pay quite a bit of "relocation expenses". As an example one of the property owners in the neighborhoods SE of D/FW house and lot appraised for around $200K and they ended up collecting nearly $325K total at closing.
@@steveludwig4200 :
Some people wouldn't sell what they have if they were offered a billion dollars. There is no fair market value, nor even a value above market price, that would compensate them for the loss of their lives as they're living them, their neighborhoods and their local connections, or their homes and all the little things they are familiar with and have enjoyed with their families all of their lives. But if there were, does that change the fact that an unapproved project can be promised as one thing, then be changed to another, more profitable plan, to someone else's benefit?
@@steveludwig4200 Well, that is all fine and dandy, but what if they don't want to sell and never had any intention of selling? I mean yeah, this is a kind of theft and it isn't going to get better. Just a cursory Google search and I found the exact opposite of what you are claiming from about every reputable website there is.
@steveludwig4200 if you don't have a choice it's theft. It's wrong. The money they offer should be triple the amount worth and the state should have to help find a comparable property for the citizen.
@@Turn140 Plus, they might not care about the value of the land from a commercial standpoint. Maybe they want to keep it for their grandkids and their great-grandkids.
As long as eminent domain exists you don't own anything. Property taxes are rent and they can take "your" property no matter if you pay it or not.
Property taxes are the biggest scam ever dreamed up by the assholes of the earth. But you’d be surprised how many people who pay them agree but think we’re idiots for saying it and want to change it.
We live in an enslavement system most can’t see!
@@mustbetrue1602Needs to change.
Both are 100% right. Let's see if ANYTHING changes in our lifetime...
Eminent domain is theft.
And it happens way too often
The gop robs you blind and you keep voting for paxton, Abbott, trump and gravell who keep laughing all the way to the bank
It's about to happen to me. The PUC and judges are allowing it despite proof that CenterPoint lied over and over under oath.
If you don't want the government to take your land, stop voting to keep the same people in office.
It’s not theft if you get paid.
It doesnt matter if it takes years. It is WRONG to simply take peoples land because the govt wants it.
Worse is when they use eminent domain for commercial purposes
It's socialism but people are fine with it... until it's their land
The irony. 😆
@@A.C.00 history IS the recording of conquest: one group of people conquering another in the quest for resources or riches. And the “government” is not a people group. The government survives because of my tax dollars.
Under no condition should this be allowed.
Eminent domain needs to be abolished, along with property taxes. Both just proved to scams...
Eminent domain is abused. It's not supposed to be used to make developers rich.
Another way to get the land.. increase it's value, and make it where they can't afford the property taxes.
@johnbland1422 not supposed to be doesn't stop the rich
So this is how the second "civil" suprise 2 way rifle range starts.
Especially when most property tax bills consist of school bonds.
If you "must" sell it, you "must" get to name your price.
Well said!
Greg Abbott’s capitalist haven sure seems communist to me.
Nope. You don't.
@speakvanholding247etc These people don't understand that their neighbors are cowards and won't stand up for them.
Actually you get to ask for jury trial to determine fair price. There have been numerous cases where the jury has determined such a high price that the government walked away.
Absolutely disgusting. Your land shouldn't be able to be taken from you. This is theft
100% inaccurate statement. I was a real estate appraiser for 30+ years in D/FW area and did quite a few eminent domain appraisals for various agencies including a significant area surrounding D/FW airport in mid to late 80s. Remember Walker-Texas Ranger episode where the crazy guy blew up an entire neighborhood of houses? A appraised all of those houses a few months earlier!. Eminent domain appraisals are not like any other real estate appraisals in that they include not only current Market Value (Before the Taking) but ALSO the Market Value (After the Taking) that would include added value BECAUSE of the fact that a major highway would likely enhance future commercial, retail or industrial development value because of Highest and Best Use of at least a part of each property like these current residential/agricultural tracts. The appraisals are 100% unbiased toward either the "buyer" or the "seller" and often actually end giving the property owners far more money OVER the appraised value because the "govt" does want to be overlay fair to that owner/taxpayer. They also pay quite a bit of "relocation expenses". As an example one of the property owners in the neighborhoods SE of D/FW house and lot appraised for around $200K and they ended up collecting nearly $325K total.
"Progress" This is what happens when too may people relocate into an area Texas.
@@steveludwig4200 All of which means nothing to owners of a family farm that has been in the family for decades, a house built by the family, and multiple generations raised there.
😂 Sure. What’s so hilarious is eminent domain is actually contemplated in the Constitution written by the founders. The founders wanted to limit government as much as humanly possible, and even they knew it was necessary. But yeah, some high value individuals on the Internet, lol, know so much more.b
Stop voting for senators and governors with their hands in the oil and relator business
Eminent domain prioritizes developers over existing residents. A lot of these issues with traffic wouldn’t exist if proper planning took place and the influx of new residents occurred gradually with small neighborhoods. Developers buy rural land and drop the equivalent of a new small town on a rural area in mere months with these massive cookie-cutter housing developments. That creates a sudden strain on utilities, especially when many developers move into an area in quick succession. Then, after creating this strain they insist on taking over family farms to fix the utility and traffic problems the developers created.
TRUTH!
More density, fewer roads needed. Wilco has plenty of land for housing already it’s just that their plans are for more suburban sprawl eating up open spaces like cancer.
This is true but they want easy money, padding wallets as necessary to get it. Welcome to America the land of the free??
So well said/summarized
suburban sprawl is cancer
A number of years ago my stepfather and several other farmers had their lands split through the middle and taken for a road. The laws may say "fair market value", but their process was anything but! The first offers were well below market and all the farmers said no. So the county condemned the land and offered even less! All the farmers then had to get lawyers just get to it back up to barely reasonable. Thieves! Every single one of them!
@@thewanderingheep Yes, same thing happened to my boyfriend's family, except after they condemned it, they kept it. The family got nothing & now more than 20yrs later, there are people living in the same houses that had been taken.
🖤🔥🖤🔥🖤
Best of luck to them. My dad’s farm was taken by the county in 1986 as it was next to the main airport which they wanted to expand. My dad got paid 60.000 and it was worth more than double to that. My dad was booted out and had no choice. When he was forced to sell his apple farm that he spent decades on growing the trees and caring for them he was depressed for the last 20 years of his life. After my dad passed on in 2012 we went back to do the funeral. We drove over to view his old apple farm. Decades had passed and the land had been leased to grow crops and the airport expansion never happened. My grandparents in another state were forced to sell their land to the country and their home was located near an ocean in a rural area was taken over to build condos and to expand the housing but the condos were on a beautiful land area and only wealthy could afford them. This was in 1983 and they were not paid the value of their property. This obviously has been going on all the time.
Look who owns the development companies then look at the investment firms who own those development companies and in most cases it goes back to one middle east country and its not iran. They are in my opinion doing the same thing over there buy differently. Same people research it. They just haven't started shooting or starving us yet
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So sad, I'm sorry 😢
That is horrible. I would weep every day if it were me.
A lot of eminent domain seizures don't end up being used for the original purpose--instead the local gov uses the land bought at forced low price to build wealth.
Eminent domain must be abolished.
Considering eminent domain dates back to AT LEAST the early Roman period, that won’t happen.
@Isaacmantx It just shows you they keep on sinning won't learn refuse to learn, until America modern day Babylon falls and is no more, we will reap what we sow.
Eminent domain does have a place
@@MrCharmz81 I cain't sow anything; they took my land for ?
@@DaveBigDawgyes for crooked politicians and their cronies
Emminent domain should be abolished its crooked
It has it place and when used correctly helps out the community
@DaveBigDawg almost never used properly so doesn't matter
Only people who get off their rears can make this change
Its BS! They are doing it to many many Texans.
We need more highways for the sacred automobile
How about the county stop building and growing population when they already don’t have the infrastructure! Leave private land owners alone!
But that would require common sense
Tell that to Abbott.
He's bringing the entire west coast to Texas
@@tashalynn29 why is the west coast moving to texas?
@@Rudywtf moving to a state that’s destroying productive farmland the fastest in the country and no border for “ freedom!!!!”🤡👍
As big assholes as they can be with permitting for construction, they can easily limit or stop granting permits. All this garbage you hear about “sustainable growth” is BS used when it serves them.
My not so humble opinion is that if an authority wants to take land by imminent domain then that authority should pay multiples of the land’s true market value. Say 3 to 5 times more. Then we’d see how d@mn important it really is. Imminent domain is often just gussied up tyranny.
If that road is intended to be there for the future, then the FUTURE value of that land should be paid. Extrapolate for a minimum of the projected life of the road and pay THAT amount to the landowners.
@ Great idea.
Because that money comes from the clouds? Or no- our taxes! But honestly, I’m ok with that if it means we can have better transportation like Europe. I’m sick of living in such a backward place with s as ok these selfish Republicunts. Chances are the landowners are terrible humans who voted for Trump. They should be deported and the land taken back with no financial restitution whatsoever. They sold their country for a red hat so they deserve what they get. Fascists. And if this pisses you off- GOOD.
They'd set market value...
I'd say they need to pay 1 & 1/2 times the cost to find & relocate to land that has similar features including proximity to whatever exists now, average of annual rainfall over X amount of years, soil composition, cost to build the exact same house, barn, fencing, etcetera and offset any cost if the new land/home is in a higher property taxed area and so on.
That's actually a terrible idea.
So, the ideal case would be buying the land in a normal market transaction. If you're giving people who get pushed out a giant windfall, then you incentivise people from not engaging in the normal process.
You'd also get speculators buying up all the land around projects at any price, since they could double their money and leave the bill with taxpayers.
It's wrong period to take someone's property of life long ownership.
@roy1516 The property cannot own property.
They are compensated for it. It's not "taken away".
@@28704joe If someone takes your TV but leaves cash for it, they still took your TV.
@@28704joethey are not fairly compensated for it.
@@28704joepoorly compensated
Cap the population in the cities. It would be like the farmer and ranchers reclaiming land to farm by taking developments, tearing them down to plant more crops.
Then you end up with unaffordable housing. If a ton of people want to live somewhere (demand) and there’s only so many properties due to various reasons, like availability, or as you’ve suggested, calling a population, (supply), then whatever existing properties are so,d at skyrocketing prices. This means that people who have no desire to sell their home have to pay property taxes on housing that used to be affordable. If not for that 10% annual cap on rising taxes, a lot if people would be out of a home from taxes alone!
And if you’re thinking, “well, they don’t have to live in Austin. There’s plenty of land elsewhere,” they’re moving here for a reason. They end up building on places near her property, and whatever rural town they have now has to deal with that traffic, ultimately needing even more new roads to get these new people in and out.
@@UmmYeahOkgreed creates unaffordable housing, something both republicans and democrats willingly don’t understand
Or you know make the cities develop for density rather than suburban hell expansions
@@CentralPlainsEnt and as usual my comment is deleted for talking common sence
Criminal to take citizens property!
More lanes solve the car issues
Decreasing the land that feeds all the people you want to cram in your city will not age well
Look at who owns the development companies look at the investment firms that own those companies and look who owns the actual investment firms. Follow it back and in most cases I believe you will find it all goes back to those connected to one middle east country and its not iran. They are doing the same thing there stealing land in my opinion. They are doing the same thing here they are just going about it different. They just haven't started to bomb or starve us yet but in my opinion they will.
That’s the plan
We've been there for a long time. It's great the Obama administration and the rest of the traitors sold off most of our agricultural land to the Chinese.
The Project will never happen it definitely is a ruse to get the land cheaper.
Then the county sells the prime real estate to developers for kickbacks.
Should be illegal! To just take anyone’s just because they won’t sell! They don’t want to sell! Just not Right!!!
I would say not no, but hell no. Stand your ground. Ten times the appraised value is not enough. You will have traffic, noise, and exhaust pollution. What if you had planned to hand that land down to family
Government Doesn't Care, they'll call in a SWAT team to remove you dead or alive.
I was a real estate appraiser for 30+ years in D/FW area and did quite a few eminent domain appraisals for various agencies including a significant area surrounding D/FW airport in mid to late 80s. Remember Walker-Texas Ranger episode where the crazy guy blew up an entire neighborhood of houses? A appraised all of those houses a few months earlier!. Eminent domain appraisals are not like any other real estate appraisals in that they include not only current Market Value (Before the Taking) but ALSO the Market Value (After the Taking) that would include added value BECAUSE of the fact that a major highway would likely enhance future commercial, retail or industrial development value because of Highest and Best Use of at least a part of each property like these current residential/agricultural tracts. The appraisals are 100% unbiased toward either the "buyer" or the "seller" and often actually end giving the property owners far more money OVER the appraised value because the "govt" does want to be overlay fair to that owner/taxpayer. They also pay quite a bit of "relocation expenses". As an example one of the property owners in the neighborhoods SE of D/FW house and lot appraised for around $200K and they ended up collecting nearly $325K total at closing and they were VERY pleased.
Stand armed and united texans. Dont allow this to happen. Take it to the supreme court and get it stopped.
I forgot what state it happened in and a family tried that. I believe they killed a couple and arrested others and treated them worse than animals when they where in jail. I don't remember what happened to them. Obumma was in office then.
They won’t. They’ll take it bent over grabbing ankles
Institute for Justice. Get a hold of them ASAP.
Exactly
For what? Eminent domain isn’t against the law. 🤷♂️
If you bought a property and don’t want changes to it, the government should never have any eminent domain to do whatever they want.
They don’t. Violation of multiple constitutional laws
People that don't own eminent domain threatened land should have a say also, because our grocery store food doesn't grow on roads and strip malls or congested neighborhoods.
No!!!!!! Get out, go away, leave people alone!
Greed strikes again. Greed knows no limits. Greed has no Morals. Greed destroys. We are definitely in times of limitless Greed! And no accountability.🥀🙏🌱
THATS called Capitalism✌🏿
Their local Gov is the issue folks, run for office and fix it.
Not always it’s power lines and pipelines also ….we have some property in Texas hill country and we have had this issue several times over like last 30 years once was a pipeline in the 90 and recently high voltage power lines …so far they picked other routes.
So easy! Thanks!
@@DrakeDealer it literally is that easy, just takes effort and not being selfish
@slange455 i live in the hill country haha small world.
I ment it's stupid for eminent domain..not city charter should ever have that
This has been happening for over 200 years. thousands of politicians have come and gone in that time and the government always votes for itself to have the most rights. The best way to keep people compliant is to trick them into thinking they have power.
Urban sprawl is like a disease.
Cities grow and get old and then those old properties fall into disrepair and are abandoned.
They then just move out and destroy open land and the process continues on and on.
Redevelop the abandoned run down areas before seizing other people's property.
And what causes urban sprawl? Population growth.
Agreed
Let me tell you our family story. I-95 ripped right through the center of our property. We only sold the strip they needed and held the rest. Future growth and development rezoning kicked in and the roadside parcels each sold for a solid sum for commercial development .
You get it, these other folks are simply ignorant of how eminent domain works.
Growth shouldn't take precedence over property owner rights.
Even the founding fathers knew we had to have infinite domain. And they wanted the government to be as small as possible with as least power as possible. But maybe you weren’t even aware it’s in the constitution.
never saw those in the Constitution.... which Right are you referring to?
Why do you need to appease the oil and gas industry. It’s my land and you can’t steal it because some giant industry wants it. Roads have to be built but around property not through it. We aren’t guaranteed the shortest route. No private land should be taken for housing. People have no right to buy a home in a particular area.
Eminent Domain is used to tell people either sell at a price they dictate or they just "Steal It' in court using the rules they wrote to steal property they want AND in that process you could also end up in jail for any actions you may have taken to try and protect your property. When the Law Enforcement arrive with the Surveying Crew you are SOL.
but how many will you take with you
Not with enough people and every person going live on the net
eminent domain should only be used for emergency actions ..not to make others rich
pay the owners enough and they will sell .
Unfortunately, that would lead all eminent domain, aka theft by the state, claims to become "emergencies"
Land owners; a last resort is toll booths. Build your own and charge a toll to use it. Biiiiiig FU to the county. They couldn't say nay.
Eminent domain is unconstitutional
It's always entertaining though when texans learn that they don't own their land.
No. It's not.
The fifth amendment to the US constitution says the government can do eminent domain as long as they compensate the value of the land
@@richards1191 See. Reading leaves to actual answers. No fun.
@@richards1191But not your home if they take it.
Why are you entertained? Only a sick POS would find joy in someone having their property stolen.
Eminent Domain can be defeated if you’re the right type of resident. Hwy 281 South in South Texas takes a detour around the King Ranch bc the family just said No! Of course, they had a little bit of pull in Austin.
Corruption goes a long way.
I’m sure the King Ranch (billionaires) has some friends in high places and a lot more pull than this woman…
This shouldnt be allowed anymore. If your city is full it’s full. You’re landlocked that’s on you.
Landlocked is bs and can be forced out for the people to access their land. Nobody will ever Landlocked me I would devote my life to getting the money I needed to force the easement.
Being land locked does not exist there will always be a forced easement.
@ it does exist. There are cities on all four sides? Native American reservations too and military bases? You aren’t going anywhere without merger.
Providing the bill or rights of land owners if you read it is heavy leaning on the county and companies side and it goes to the same court county that wants the land. So the lions are in charge of the sheep. The realtors are also in it to include them
AND, sometimes they will plan this stuff out only to abandon the 'project' years later but still retain the property/s. Plus if the State devalues the property for Eminent Domain, then that should reflect on their tax bills for refunds or ??
Property taxes are jewish
Make it stop!!!
Eminent domain is happening all over the DFW area as well. The population is rapidly growing and landowners are being pushed out,
Land owners be careful on this type of strategy you will end up having subdivision projects as next door neighbor and your property tax will shoot up. happens.
I wouldn't sell but lease the land and retain all mineral and water rights
Great idea! If they had to pay rent to the owner, it would make them think twice. Plus it would disincentivize trying to steal the land. If you make it easy (and free) to steal...they'll steal
If they want it, you have no rights
Big cities should build up, not out, "to save the planet".
I remember Sacramento county in Commiefornia bought land through eminent domain for a connecting freeway, then sold the land to developers.
Imagine having your land taken by the government for a roadway, then sold to have new homes built on it.
They need stop this kind of theft.
This is what happens when ANY government gets to big. My mother in law was complaining about a federal govt shut down one year and I asked, well how many governments do you need? You live in the town so you have State govt, county govt and city govt.
And all of them are corrupt. Even in small towns.
Welcome to Texassistan.
makes perfect sense. Bring more people to Texas while pushing existing residents out. Tell everyone our power grid is great, while we are losing power. Increase property taxes while you tell the world there's a huge surplus.
Wow! This really can't be happening in the free state of Texas. Or can it.
TX is poor and corrupt and ugly.
Those city officials forget that they are not immune to citizens who are tired of being pushed around when the sun goes down. There is no limit nor law I would not break in the protection of my land. These public entities need to realize when it comes to planning upgrades they need to look at other options. rather than a single road being submitted, submit Road A, Road B, Road C, enlarging existing roads, increasing speed limits on existing roads, adding an express lane to existing roads to bypass heavy traffic locations. All of these things need to be put up for public vote and let the public decide, not the public entities.
Institute for Justice, contact them.
Eminent domain should not exist at all.
Bugs Bunny warned us years ago about the danger of eminent domain.
He did.
Eminent domain is my primary reason for not wanting to buy a house
Right? The illusion that private property is sacred and guaranteed in the US is a joke. Govt here is tyrannical, you don't own anything.
We need land for cows and horses and food. We have so many apartment buildings going up houses going up they keep saying more houses more apartment buildings. What about the ones are sitting empty
well by this it proves you do not own the land because government can force you out even if your great great parents had it and passed it down to you... gotta love the Government.
Generational land hoarding needs to be abolished. Thousands of acres unused because of country bumpkins locking up the land.
Rosa Koire warned us about this use of eminent domain years ago..'Behind the Green Mask'
They need to use their 2A rights and defend their property from thieves.
Yeah, that worked so well for Waco.
They don’t have to build a road that goes through people’s houses and barns
this happens all across the United States. I find it extremely sad. Because people when they buy their homes, they’re thinking it’s their longtime home, and then for the county to come take it over an intimate domain in my opinion is wrong. Basically people are being bullied out of their homes. That’s the way I see it. I don’t even own home, I’m glad.
Also property tax is what caused eminent domain to be around
It never fails to amaze me that rights of individuals fall to the wayside in the face of the profits of developers.
Same sort of crap is happening with the new High Speed rail project -- already pushed out a lot of families for a train that will never EVER get built -- as always it is just a land grab.
That Texas Central project is dead. The corporation still owes its 2023 property taxes and HOA fees. The governor may order TC to sell their ROW property back to the original owners since the corporation only purchased 30% of the land needed for the ROW.
So the project is secretly studied for 3 legislative sessions and then the property owner has just 14 days of study ? This is government overreach
In Japan they cannot take the land therefore there are still homes on the Tokyo airport. But in the land of Freedom…….
In the land of the freedom, you're free to be a fool and believe that you're free.
Hopefully people are waking uo to the fact that the state is not your friend and will turn on you as its benefactors see fit
Why own land or basically buy from the state if no matter what they can force you to sell or you loose out 😂😂 no matter what we do we’re not free any thing we try to do work hard to buy things legally it’s still not good enough crazy
You never really own land. You keep buying it repeatedly in taxes! How many seniors with no mortgage lose their homes because they can’t pay the creeping taxes!
So much for Texas representing freedom.
They can't do it if a couple hundred Texans show up to protect your property. I live 45min away
"You can't stop progress". That is a phrase that's thrown a4round to shut people up. Progress being supposedly a universal term of something good. IMO, in Texas, "You can't stop progress" refers to the growth of a metestatic cancer. County residents, most for generations, didn't ask for and don't want the cancerous growth. They don't want to watch their home towns turn into something unrecognizable within as little as ten years. This always fatal, incurable, and rapidly metastasizing cancer is called Greed.
Sounds like Texas is acting very Federal Government-like.
Everybody here in Texas has been brainwashed into liking big government. 😊
You’ll never own your property in America. This is why I’m leaving this joke of a country
WHY PAY PROPERTY TAXES IF THEY CAN TAKE WHERE MY ANIMALS ARE BURIED??????? FAMILIES BLOOD AND SWEAT POURED INTO IT.
people dont realize that government and utility companies and the department of natural resources CAN at any time claim eminent domain on YOUR property!
But, but I thought private property was sacred in the US!
@@johnc3525 NOPE!
@@johnc3525only thing sacred here is the almighty dollar my friend. This whole country was built on stealing land.
Just accept you don't have enough room!!
You wanted more government
This is more government
Not really, like they said, the bill took into account the interests of big oil. Private companies profit hugely from things like this because they get to build things paid by the govt. You wanted more corporation power. This is more corporation power.
Strawman logical fallacy. Most people commenting here do not support this, do not want more govt, and never voted for this.
Just remember the party of "small" government makes up majority of the Texas legislature, who is the only entity who can authorize or revoke eminent domain enforcement, with a 2/3rds vote. y'all aren't ready for that conversation though
now you have to ask yourself, if you ever really own your land or property
What is happening to my state? Texas doesn't need any more people here. There is no vacancy.
The pan handle is vacant.
Nobody really owns land. They just rent it from the government in exchange for property taxes.
No one should be able too take what u payed for laws need to be fixed lol
When you see grade stakes on your land,you’ll not recognize your land or home place ever was. I know because I lost it all but the most valuable part which I donated to the church.REMEMBER THE TRAIL OF TEARS BY READING THE BOOK!!!😢
Do you want another Ruby Ridge? This is how you get another Ruby Ridge.
Brought to you by the Texas party of "small" government👍🏻
It's communism.
100% inaccurate statement. I was a real estate appraiser for 30+ years in D/FW area and did quite a few eminent domain appraisals for various agencies including a significant area surrounding D/FW airport in mid to late 80s. Remember Walker-Texas Ranger episode where the crazy guy blew up an entire neighborhood of houses? A appraised all of those houses a few months earlier!. Eminent domain appraisals are not like any other real estate appraisals in that they include not only current Market Value (Before the Taking) but ALSO the Market Value (After the Taking) that would include added value BECAUSE of the fact that a major highway would likely enhance future commercial, retail or industrial development value because of Highest and Best Use of at least a part of each property like these current residential/agricultural tracts. The appraisals are 100% unbiased toward either the "buyer" or the "seller" and often actually end giving the property owners far more money OVER the appraised value because the "govt" does want to be overlay fair to that owner/taxpayer. They also pay quite a bit of "relocation expenses". As an example one of the property owners in the neighborhoods SE of D/FW house and lot appraised for around $200K and they ended up collecting nearly $325K total at closing and they were VERY pleased.
@@steveludwig4200I think you missed the part where they don’t want to sell, for any price. Imminent domain has been abused. It hurts many families who have put their heart, blood and money into their homestead. You can’t put a price on the memories of generationally owned land. Texas, of all places, should do better
@@steveludwig4200 It is a 100% accurate statement. The first plank (goal) of the 10 planks (goals) of the Comm. Manifesto is to ban private property ownership. That's exactly what THIS is. qed
That's where you're wrong pardner. A majority of the Texas legislature is the Texas GOP. You can thank them, they love it when your disdain is deflected toward anyone else.
The most egregious example of land theft through Eminent Domain happened several years ago in Connecticut. People were forced out of their homes, not for roads but for commercial development. People left, their houses were demolished, then the commercial development was never completed. It was so sad!
I did business in Longview with a guy that once owned a Midas Muffler franchise in Boston. Said the property owner lost to eminent domain so a shopping mall could be built. He received some compensation from Midas for that but had no desire to stay in that region any longer due to the COL.
The owners of the property need to find out if this is going to be for profit or nonprofit companies because if it is for profit, eminent domain cannot be used against them. And a lot of these highways and roads being put up in Texas are owned by certain LLC companies under different names it’s gonna take a long time to do it, but that’s what needs to be done for these people to save their property just like what happened to the people on the bullet train route from Dallas all the way to Houston they got their land taken, and from what I understand, the bullet project train is not going to be Produced anymore so these people technically had their land stolen from them. Good luck this has to stop.
So nobody has heard the game called,"big money takes little money" the person with more money wins, that's life & I can't deny it.
Why spend $$$ to buy land when you can give to a re-election campaign and get the land for a third of the price?
Why did the oil companies get a say?
The theory in our current times according to economists is that Texans along 135 need to understand what’s coming via Mexico and USA trade. If we replace China w/ Mexico for industrial and consumer trade - the whole of I35 will be insane and I wouldn’t want to live too close to it.
I didn't know that. It will be pretty funny if right wing Texans lose their lands to the government because of what they voted for.
The PUC is allowing it to happen to me and my husband. They're corrupt as the company who lied throughout the whole court case!
Texas what a mess
I was taken aback by the realization that running goats and sheep on a $3.2 million dollar property allows this gal to probably pay less in property taxes than I pay on a little plot of land next to a dusty road surrounded by old trailer houses.
It looks like someone likes legal favoritism when it suits them, but doesn’t like legal frameworks that don’t directly benefit them.👹
Isn’t that special!
This is happening everywhere in Texas. Say thank you Abbott
Alot of Texans just can't critical think issues and blindly support Abbott etc. Thinking that he is helping them but meanwhile he's destroying Texas selling it out from under us Texans. China owns the majority of farm land here and owns our largest oil refineries now. Go Abbott Go
I think a lot of these folks were shooting spitballs during their Texas government class. They don't even know how eminent domain works or that Texas GOP voted to give these counties the authority to use it.
It pains me to say this but people in this country just don't realize that you truly don't own nothing anymore.