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Lint Head

(15,064 posts) Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:01 PM Mar 2012

Trump is claiming public tax payor owned property is his.

Homeowners in Hollywood Beach, Florida are at war over Trump Hollywood -- a luxury condo -- because the proud owners of the condo are claiming dibs on the area of the public beach in front of their building.

http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/29/beach-war-trump-condo-florida/#.T3Sioo5lc7A

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Trump is claiming public tax payor owned property is his. (Original Post) Lint Head Mar 2012 OP

If handled properly Cirque du So-What Mar 2012 #1

He can't do it. That is settled law in Floriduh. Ikonoklast Mar 2012 #2

What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine... n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2012 #3

Generally beachfront property has a public easement on it, allowing non-owners access to the water. no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #4

Cirque du So-What

(25,939 posts)

1. If handled properly

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:05 PM

Mar 2012

this could become a rallying point for opposition to 1%er privilege.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)

2. He can't do it. That is settled law in Floriduh.

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:10 PM

Mar 2012

That beach is public property, period.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

3. What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine... n/t

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Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:20 PM

Mar 2012

no_hypocrisy

(46,115 posts)

4. Generally beachfront property has a public easement on it, allowing non-owners access to the water.

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:37 PM

Mar 2012

What it sounds like is an attempt to gain ownership of the property via adverse possession.

It's like time-release trespassing with ownership being granted at the end of a period of time, either 10 or 20 years. You squat on the land in an "open and notorious manner", cultivate said property, and you are subject to being evicted by the true owner. Sounds like Trump's trying to privitize public property by putting beach chairs on the sand to give the appearance of possession and ownership.

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