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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 ...
Lascivious Pearl Faggotry Property
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Railroads will never sell their land.
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Date: April 29th, 2025 8:06 PM
Author: Lascivious Pearl Faggotry Property

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48891596)



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Date: April 29th, 2025 8:14 PM
Author: Snowy gas station cuckoldry

What the fuck?

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Date: April 30th, 2025 12:06 PM
Author: Lascivious Pearl Faggotry Property

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

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:31 PM
Author: talented rose menage potus



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Date: April 29th, 2025 8:18 PM
Author: Maize business firm becky

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
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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:17 PM
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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:31 PM
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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:34 PM
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Date: May 7th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Vivacious Mint Center



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Date: May 9th, 2025 12:07 AM
Author: Sapphire Trailer Park



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Date: April 29th, 2025 8:20 PM
Author: curious blue main people private investor

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Date: April 29th, 2025 10:25 PM
Author: Maize business firm becky



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Date: April 30th, 2025 12:08 PM
Author: vengeful soul-stirring stag film persian



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Lascivious Pearl Faggotry Property



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:12 PM
Author: marvelous dead ticket booth striped hyena

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: mahogany rehab international law enforcement agency

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48909788)



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:15 PM
Author: cracking misanthropic garrison hissy fit

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

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:16 PM
Author: Wonderful cordovan skinny woman pit

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48909791)



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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:19 PM
Author: cracking misanthropic garrison hissy fit

(henry fonda)

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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:55 PM
Author: Pearly mind-boggling idea he suggested mental disorder

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

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:26 PM
Author: Indigo Boistinker Round Eye

Just do Coase theorem

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Date: May 6th, 2025 10:38 PM
Author: Topaz Mediation Partner

Railroads will never sell their land.

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Date: May 7th, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: Wonderful cordovan skinny woman pit

CR.

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Date: May 7th, 2025 5:49 PM
Author: Elite doctorate

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: Topaz Mediation Partner

(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: Elite doctorate

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: bearded clown

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: Elite doctorate

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: marvelous dead ticket booth striped hyena



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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:49 PM
Author: Topaz Mediation Partner

It’s a bundle of sticks

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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:56 PM
Author: Topaz Mediation Partner

Jesus, the Dawes Act

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5718296&forum_id=2...id.#48915868)