Comments on: SpaceX extends Boca Chica purchase deadline, will do new appraisals https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-extends-boca-chica-purchase-deadline-will-do-new-appraisals/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 21:10:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-extends-boca-chica-purchase-deadline-will-do-new-appraisals/#comment-1071752 Mon, 14 Oct 2019 21:10:51 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=61402#comment-1071752 Maybe one or two are thinking that they can rent out RV parking for closer than NASA launch observations.

]]> By: Lee S https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-extends-boca-chica-purchase-deadline-will-do-new-appraisals/#comment-1071748 Mon, 14 Oct 2019 19:41:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=61402#comment-1071748 @David… I don’t see the problem… Apart from the landowner and SpaceX…
I remember seeing guys in the woods repeating how they would never leave Mnt St. helans. As far as I am aware, they are still buried under the pyroclastic flows.
SpaceX can sign a contract with these guys, giving SpaceX freedom from prosecutions , and the guys living there a nice living.
As long as a rocket pro-tyoe doesn’t land on their head! ;-)

]]> By: David https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-extends-boca-chica-purchase-deadline-will-do-new-appraisals/#comment-1071747 Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:07:13 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=61402#comment-1071747 I think there is definitely a bit of windfall greed happening here on the part of the homeowners. They were offered THREE TIMES the appraised value. Even if the appraisal is artificially low, it’s not off by THAT much. And it’s not like there are going to be any other buyers, and if you hold out long enough, the county IS going to eventually use eminent domain, it’s just not reasonable for people to be living that close to an active spaceport.

On the flip side, nobody wants to be forced to sell, for many of them it’s probably very neat to live that close to all this activity, and you might as well try for the most you can get.

But I won’t have much sympathy for people that are still holding out months from now.

]]> By: Lee S https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-extends-boca-chica-purchase-deadline-will-do-new-appraisals/#comment-1071745 Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:30:07 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=61402#comment-1071745 As I have mentioned before…. This is the bit of capitalism I can get behind!
A private company wants to buy a private persons property…. The going sale price is whatever the house owner will accept.
SpaceX has pretty deep pockets at this point, and to be fair…. Almost everything privately owned has its price.
No doubt the owners with the wherewithal to hold out will make a handsome profit, and I respect them for it!
( It might even give them the funds to pay for their kids education and medical insurance!) ;-)

]]> By: wodun https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-extends-boca-chica-purchase-deadline-will-do-new-appraisals/#comment-1071732 Sun, 13 Oct 2019 19:31:02 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=61402#comment-1071732 They should get a premium.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-extends-boca-chica-purchase-deadline-will-do-new-appraisals/#comment-1071714 Sun, 13 Oct 2019 02:46:13 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=61402#comment-1071714 The article is worth reading. If Space X is going to be conducting flight operations, they should buy out the property owners.

However.

The property owners make Boca Chica, TX, sound like Boca Chica, Dominican Republic (I checked images from both places). As for the compensation some these folks are hinting at, and particularly for the part-time residents, methinks they doth protest too much.

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