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Anyone ever tried to buy land from a railroad before?

Working on a real estate deal. Building sits on land owned ...
Spectacular pontificating orchestra pit
  04/29/25
What the fuck?
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Railroads will never sell their land.
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A building sitting on year to year leased land is unsellable...
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Date: April 29th, 2025 8:06 PM
Author: Spectacular pontificating orchestra pit

Working on a real estate deal. Building sits on land owned by a railroad company, building owner pays yearly rent to the railroad.

It seems crazy to buy the building and hope the railroad just keeps renting the land to me. It's on a freaking one year lease. So I would propose to the railroad that I buy the land, or at least rent it for a very long period. Dollar amount of the lease is trivial, maybe a couple thousand dollars a year.

Has anyone ever dealt with this before? I've heard doing anything with a railroad is super bureaucratic.

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Date: April 29th, 2025 8:14 PM
Author: exciting business firm

What the fuck?

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Date: April 30th, 2025 12:06 PM
Author: Spectacular pontificating orchestra pit

It's definitely a crazy situation but apparently it's common.

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:31 PM
Author: Vibrant gaping genital piercing



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Date: April 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: Canary Field Goyim

Just consider yourself lucky that whoever owns that railroad doesn’t own all four railroads.

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:14 PM
Author: Excitant voyeur



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:17 PM
Author: burgundy cerebral senate



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:31 PM
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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:34 PM
Author: flesh startling church building really tough guy



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Date: May 7th, 2025 6:42 PM
Author: Odious spot



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Date: May 7th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: orange curious lay



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Date: May 9th, 2025 12:07 AM
Author: Cheese-eating nubile meetinghouse therapy



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Date: April 29th, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: irradiated filthy laser beams rigpig

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Date: April 29th, 2025 10:25 PM
Author: Canary Field Goyim



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Date: April 30th, 2025 12:08 PM
Author: misunderstood stag film becky



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Spectacular pontificating orchestra pit



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:12 PM
Author: Multi-colored Sienna Hominid

Does the RR use the tracks currently? Good luck getting them to agree to anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48909784)



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:14 PM
Author: Excitant voyeur

Good luck, brother. Railroads aren’t in the business of selling land from what I gather. Maybe they’ll make an exception for you.

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:15 PM
Author: Idiotic Harsh Box Office

(guy who just watched once upon a time in the west)

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:16 PM
Author: judgmental contagious tanning salon

Merely asking the railroad to do this could cause them to decide not to renew the lease or ask for a crazy higher amount for rent.

Railroad’s don’t like to sell property and they have very aggressive lawyers who are part of an old money clique that’s very hard to break into.

I’d recommend leaving this one alone.

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:19 PM
Author: Idiotic Harsh Box Office

(henry fonda)

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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: Stubborn opaque casino azn

If there's one place alpha males congregate it's railroad law

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:26 PM
Author: dashing flickering corner

Just do Coase theorem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48909806)



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:38 PM
Author: bateful institution

Railroads will never sell their land.

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Date: May 7th, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: judgmental contagious tanning salon

CR.

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Date: May 7th, 2025 5:49 PM
Author: henna lodge

A building sitting on year to year leased land is unsellable (except to you or your client apparently) and unleverageable. If the current owner wants to sell the building he ought to help you with the negotiation with the RR. You should only want to buy it contingent on satisfactory ground lease terms from the RR. Is it Short Line by any chance? What are the politics or special relationships in this situation?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48911816)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 6:41 PM
Author: bateful institution

(Guy whose done some railroad work in his day)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48911963)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 9:56 PM
Author: henna lodge

Dinah, blow your horn. HLS friend is a specialist in railroad law. "From Harv. Law Rev. to I've Been Working on the Railroad via a SCOTUS clerkship: What a Long Strange Trip it's Been."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48912372)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: talented massive space

lol any dumbass knows not to buy a building on land someone else owns. makes no sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48912374)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: henna lodge

Hope it's flame, but there are plenty of situations in which a building sits on leased land.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48912377)



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Date: May 7th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Multi-colored Sienna Hominid



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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:49 PM
Author: bateful institution

It’s a bundle of sticks

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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:56 PM
Author: bateful institution

Jesus, the Dawes Act

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