Top 5 STUBBORN Homeowners who REFUSED to Leave

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and stood their ground against the aggressive construction companies. Today's video is among the five most

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owners. The number five. This house is the product of a

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to move. In the 1950s, a major developer came to the neighborhood with dreams of redeveloping the neighborhood and fixing it up. This strange house was once part of six other identical rowhouses. The area was quite poor and considered a slum, so most people were happy to sell their houses and make a good profit. The row of houses was taken. one by one because the person who owned this house was upset by the proposed development and stood his ground no matter what the developer did or offered him, the stubborn owner refused to sell, so the developer went to the house 100 years where it was and it was simply built around it, the result is a very strange looking half house that still stands today.

The Half House is located on San Patrick Street in Toronto, Ontario and interestingly, the house has an address that actually says fifty-four and a half people. marvel at the strange house that literally appears to have been cut in half, others simply laugh at the strangeness of this half house number four. This is a nice little house that clearly stands out from its imposing counterparts. An architect named Austin Franks was the owner. of this quaint little house in Washington DC, he was very proud of his purchase, so when developers came with the intention of converting his block into a series of office buildings, Spring refused to sell, frustrated by Springs, the developer increased the bets offering him a staggering $3 million, but it wasn't about the money, according to Springs, it was about the director.

He liked his house and didn't want to move. Seeing no other option, the developers continued with their plans and built office buildings around the small house. In 2011, however, Springs changed his mind and so the property was also partnered with a DC-based development company, although the price had dropped by that time and Springs left the house to him for $800,000. The small house was eventually converted into a restaurant and remained surrounded by the taller one. buildings in 2016 at that time the developers who bought the property sold it for four million dollars it looks like the original owners went bankrupt that's a shame number three the Figo house is located in Portland Oregon near the University Portland Estate, the Queen of 1894.

The Anne-style house was purchased by Rancher Acker in 2005. Acker purchased the house to convert it into a small office for his private law practice. He was very fond of architecture and loved the character of all the Queen Ann homes in the neighborhood. He named the house after his beloved dog, but in 2006, just a year after he purchased the house, Portland's mass transportation authority, Trimet, attempted to acquire the property. TriMet had already purchased the surrounding Victorian houses and was in the process of demolishing them when it offered to buy a house from KERS, but Acker was angry that they were tearing up the neighborhood, so he flatly refused to sell TriMet.

At that point he tried another tactic, threatening to take the house under something called anima dominion. The anima domain allows public entities to purchase private properties. Even though the seller doesn't want to sell, TriMet wanted the house because the entire area was going to be converted into high-quality student housing for the University of Portland, the proposed development would be a 16-story residence hall that would cost nineteen million dollars per little KERS. The office was right down the road, but despite their threats, Acker would have none of it and, being a business lawyer, fought the city and one quarter was forced to cancel his plan to acquire the property through a intimate domain.

However, the residence was still built, but it was just built around the house, the result is a very strange Victorian house right in the middle of the number two high-rise student building. This house is literally surrounded by a road and although people joke, the house has 360 degree views of the road. This house probably didn't think it was that fun. This house is located in Guangzhou, southern China, and is the last of several houses that were sold and demolished to complete this road. There are actually three Chinese owners in this building and when the developers left. They entered and demanded that they sell them, everyone refused.

The planners were upset by their refusal to sell, as they needed the houses gone so they could connect the city's road network with a tunnel under the Pearl River, but the stubborn owners didn't mind them doing so. Going nowhere, they stayed in their homes as construction began around them. Frustrated, the city was forced to modify their plans and build the road around the house. This is not the only house like this in China, although it is an example of what the Chinese call nail houses. Nail houses are seen all over China in strange places, sometimes a nail house has a road built around it. like this one or sometimes a nail house is simply a small house left standing in the center of luxury homes, in any case nail houses are the result of stubborn owners who refuse to sell to the Urban planners have no choice but to alter their plans and build around these nail houses.

The term nail house was coined by the developers and refers to nails that are driven into the wood and cannot be hit with a hammer, but anyway let's move on to number one, this little house belonged to Edit Masefield, who became quite famous when her antics received national attention. The house is located in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle. Masefield was an elderly woman who had lived in the house for a long time, when developers came and wanted to build a five-story commercial building, Masefield refused to sell in 2006. Masefield made headlines when she turned down a very generous offer to his house.

She was reportedly offered $1 million for the tiny house, but she wasn't. She didn't even accept the offer and flatly rejected it. Her story began to circulate in the media and Mace Fields received great support. People admired her resistance tactics and she even became something of a legend in the town where the little house was. She 108 years old from her house and she told developers over and over again that she wouldn't abandon her beloved home, so the developers ended up building a five-story commercial space around her tiny house. she. Masefield lived the rest of her life in her home surrounded by her. next to the newly built tallest building, she sadly passed away in 2008, but the hero she resisted was still alive when she passed away.

Masefield bequeathed the house to the new building's construction superintendent, Barry Morton Martin, she had been kind to Masefield throughout the development, so she actually let him. your house to show your gratitude, which is quite surprising in the following years, a famous tattoo artist Curtis James designed a new tattoo based on your house, the tattoo is meant to symbolize holding on to the things that are important to you and, for June As of 2015, over 30 people have tattooed the Masefield House on their bodies to honor Masefield and its incredible history. Additionally, in 2009, Disney publicists placed balloons at May's country house to promote her upcoming film that was based on her story.

The film is about a widower who faces. The same problems Masefield had with pressuring impending developers to sell something they don't want to sell. The image of the Masefield house with the colorful balloons became a kind of emblem for

homeowners

across the country who believed in one owner's ownership. Right to resist and before we go, we have a couple of honorable mentions that didn't make the list. Boo Pink. She probably never imagined this would happen to her house when she refused to sell. Woo Ping is something of a Chinese celebrity because of her resilience. tactics in 2004, developers came and tried to buy all the land in their neighborhood, they wanted to build a shopping center, but none of the families in the area, 300 in total, wanted to sell, they all refused at first, however, slowly , one by one they began. sell until finally woo ping was the last one left, but she still didn't want to sell even after everyone else did, so the developers started construction around her house, forcing her to live in this surreal situation with his house perched on a mound of earth seeing that it was an absurd situation what we are paying finally relented in 2007 they offered him a considerable sum for his house and a new apartment which in the end he accepted with great pleasure and, finally, the parishioners of this Roman Catholic church in downtown San Antonio.

They resisted when the jóska department store offered to buy their church from them. Joss wanted to develop a series of small retail stores that eventually became the River Center stores, but parishioners were too attached to their place of worship and unanimously agreed not to sell. Joss had no choice but to build around his charming little home. church and today the church is jokingly referred to as Sunt Dusk. I hope you enjoyed today's video. Be sure to check out some of my previous uploads and remember to subscribe for more.