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Originally Posted by manaboutown
I wonder if the owners in question who were forced to sell under extreme duress for pennies on the dollar to likely the only buyer available would say they "passed their homes to a company". If I were in this grievous situation I would literally be in anguish, suffering significant financial loss and conceivably the death of my retirement dream.
I also wonder if a for-profit house flipping company ever sets out to 'tie things up'. Why would such an outfit set out to do that at some financial cost rather than rehab the houses and profitably resell them as quickly as possible? The tie up is due to the inaction to remediate the sinkhole by the powers that be, whoever and whatever they are.
Whether or not the homeowners "do not need pity" I truly pity them. If this happened to me I would be devastated. These 80+ year old folks likely did not "wish" to move but have been unquestionably forced to do so. I imagine they much more likely would have wished to continue enjoying whatever activities they were taking part in prior to their terrible loss. My heart goes out to them and to their neighbors as the whole neighborhood has been adversely impacted.
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You misunderstood me, or I was not clear. It is indeed very sad that they have suffered catastrophic loss due to this completely awful event.
They are forced to move because this happened, not because someone caused it to happen. They should and are given sympathy because of having an act of nature destroy their home, and we all would be saddened by this no matter how young or old they are.
The point I was trying to make is that many of us reading this forum are in our eighties and living very normally and independently and do not need pity for being a certain age. People do not need to be pitied for being old. Many of us are doing quite well.