February 13, 2013
Yes, No, Wait
Our local newspaper is reporting on a situation of a man in dispute
with the city over some property. “He’s
been trying to get the city to buy it from him for years and maintains he can’t
get an answer on the subject.” I have to laugh at the obvious. The man has
been trying to sell the property for years and the city has not taken him up on
the offer, so the answer is ‘no’. At one time or another most of us have heard
the little ditty that God answers our prayers with ‘yes, no, or wait’.
Sometimes our prayer requests are well thought-out, seemingly justifiable, and
yet unfulfilled. We too can be seen stamping our feet and maintaining that we
can’t get an answer on the subject.
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Gail;
-----The City may as well own the property, since it uses it like it owns it. His use of it is definitely curtailed. What can he do with a street, especially one that is an important thoroughfare? I liked his idea of making it a toll road and charging City vehicles extra. But that also comes with his bearing the cost of upkeep and paying real estate tax, which I rather doubt he does now. And I think the way attorneys and juries attach liabilities to any pocket from which they can hear a jingle, he should perpetually be paying healthy insurance premiums.
-----It might then behoove him to realize his ownership of the street is more by a glitch than for a purpose. However the street came to be included in the description of the property he bought to build a very profitable business, the value he paid proceeded from his ambition to build a business, not to own a street. Since his ambition was worthy of the full price he paid (witness the business,) why should he think he needs anything extra for the street? He would not be deprived by just deeding it over for a buck and a smile. I’m sure that over the years he’s smiled very well at banking all the bucks from the business his initial purchase enabled.
-----An opportunity to get money always seems to be a true litmus test of one’s character. I don’t know this guy, so in all other ways he may well be a far better person than am I. But there is no way in the hell of this black earth I would join the character of low-information-voters, welfare riders, and marauding hordes of wealth-redistributionists by seizing upon an opportunity to make a few more bucks from what is a mere paper circumstance. My advice to this chap: pay the property to the City for a giant chunk of good character. “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, you shall bring it back to him. If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it, you shall help him to lift it up.” Exodus 23:4-5.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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