"Walt" wrote in message
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Paul Skoczylas wrote:

"Paddlec1" wrote:
I don't think we've heard from him here since he lost his land. No
longer
owning riverside land, he doesn't have any interest in us anymore.

Didn't know he'd lost the land. That's gotta suck. Any details?.

As I recall:

The legal owner of the land was his mother. When she died, she left the
land to both Scott and his brother. The brother wanted to liquidate the
property to get his share in cash, and Scott was unable to buy him out.


Aha. So the inheritance "tax" was having to share the estate with his
siblings.

Seems to me that he could have managed to divide the land in two and let
his brother sell his half. Then again, if he negotiated with his
brother the way he behaved here, it's no surprise he's left with nada.


It would have been better if his brother had been a river runner, and had
kept a strip right down the middle enclosing the river, and opened it up for
public access despite what the laws said. That would have been fun.

--riverman