They want to bulldoze my home!!!

[Confused]

Damn, everyone has already done most of the HGTTG jokes I was going to do




Good luck with avoiding getting your house bulldozed.


Confused

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: MrColin

Originally posted by: Ornery
Get the local people to picket the board meeting and make a fuss. Squawk about how there's already too much riffraff and crime from the current multi-family zoned areas... no, wait... :Q

Yes this is my first strategy. There are some owners on my block who may actually care about student-ghetto type development on this block. There's a goodly number of tree hugger ordinances in this town too. Perhaps I can persuade some bureaucrat to stall the rezoning until an environmental impact study can be performed.

My landlord is in no real hurry to get rid of the place, but it is a shack with weeds growing out of the rain gutters, leaking roof, etc. Its over 120 years old too so a counter offer isn't really very realistic.

Blackmail/bribe the zoning board?

There are nine on the committee, and 5 is a quorum. If I can intimidate 4 to not show how much do I need to buy at least 3 of the remaining committee members?

Amount would be subject to negotiation.

If they don't go for the cash try sexual favors.

 

[Ornery]

"Its over 120 years old too..."

Get the historical preservation society on the case!

 

[AMCRambler]

Why don't you make a deal with the guy who wants to build the apartments that you won't make a stink and hier a lawyer if he lets you rent one of the new apartments and keep your dogs and cats?

 

[MrColin]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Why don't you make a deal with the guy who wants to build the apartments that you won't make a stink and hier a lawyer if he lets you rent one of the new apartments and keep your dogs and cats?

I don't want to live in a tent while the place is being built.

Also, these are also going to be two bedroom ghetto apts for students, as opposed to the single family house w/ a yard that I have now. Unlivable by my standards.