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Post by title1parent on Apr 15, 2008 14:03:37 GMT -5
Gandalf- you are forever the Warrior. I will miss you.
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Post by justvote on Apr 15, 2008 16:17:49 GMT -5
Gandalf - if you are who I think you are, I have always had the utmost repect for you. You were the one person I could trust on the boards (& you knew that from my pm's). You are a man of integrity. I understood your personal issues with the third high school, and felt you were always sincere. I never doubted your "motivation".
Good luck to you - MV's loss is Benet's gain.
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Post by 3woodgal on Apr 15, 2008 17:26:01 GMT -5
One SB member mentioned that price, 300K. I believe it was BG. It has been proven by the NSFOC that any SB member on any given day can misspeak. Go figure, they are human. There were several roadblocks to Macom, price being one of them but it was impossible to open in 2009, no chance of that happening. That drove any price Macom had up with the built-in costs of dealing with a 2010 opening. I am done with talking about other pieces of property. Time to move on at least for me. I think one claim the NSFOC makes may come true. The AME property will end up cost us more and they will make sure of it. I hope I am wrong. Of course they will. Several people on the other board were saying how they HOPE that the BB attorneys will stick it to "us" or something to that effect. Do they not realize the "us" they refer to is everyone living in this district? The "us" isn't the school board or pro-Eola people or whoever. It's the entire District and its residents. They are on a witch hunt and calling regional superintendents and ISBE people to report Dr. D and school board members. They are hanging their hat on this appraisal announcment. Do they not know that when you are looking at property, you use comps from the market and it is the mortgage company who actually does the appraisals? Buyers don't normally do appraisals, lenders do. Again, fair market value is when the seller and buyer agree on the price. With BB, the buyer and seller couldn't agree so someone had to do that for us. We didn't like the price, so we walked away, doing the financially responsible thing. I also take exception to the other board's remarks about the church making a fortune on this. Just because they are non-profit doesn't mean they can't have noney in the bank. This was simply a good return on their investment. Would you or I be criticized for getting a good return on some stock that we bought at a low price and we sold for higher? No! In fact, the church could have held out for more, but they didn't. They are good people. Even people who make a 600% return on their investment can be good people. Who is the greedier party here anyway? The BB people aren't making a profit on that land? I'm sure they didn't pay over $500,000 an acre for it, yet no one is saying they are greedy. Of course, it's the church that are the greedy ones. They will find anything to pick apart. This is what desparate groups do. I have not engaged in anything on the other board because it will do no use. Let them grieve, stew, throw verbal attacks, have a tamptrum. But let them do it by themselves. Just like a tantruming child, you have to ingnore them and not give them the attention they want. I'm not going over there anymore. It's like picking a scab. Everyone needs time to heal now. Last night our SB handfed BB to prevail. I am shocked to learn no appraisal was done and the profit the church will make since AT says there was no time. Get our pocketbooks out and from what I am hearing a ref may not be needed for our bill to go up! Maybe I can request a "voucher" if I can't afford the tax hike.
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