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Tansy_Gold

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50. That's what I was thinking -- some kind of scam

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 04:23 PM

Dec 2012

If the deal included restrictions, such as what we had in Indiana years ago regarding "forest reserve" (or whatever it was called), so that the land couldn't be resold or used for anything else for 20 or 30 or 40 years without paying a huge penalty, it might be okay. But I smell scam.

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