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$497,000
In 2014, as part of a highway-building project in a rural county in Eastern North Carolina, the North Carolina Department of Transportation took roughly 4 acres of a twenty-acre parcel along the frontage of a county road. The DOT took a family home and a mobile home on the property and controlled access to the property so that the remainder of the property (the remaining 16 acres) was significantly damaged and reduced in value. The landowner felt DOT’s appraiser significantly undervalued the home on the property because of the lack of viable sales in the area and undervalued the property due to the lack of zoning for the rural property. Further, the damages to the remainder of the property were not adequately assessed.
The DOT had stalled at the offer of approximately $384,000. At mediation, a Riddle & Riddle attorney was able to use owner opinion testimony and information from a local broker to increase the DOT’s offer to $497,000 and secure two additional parcels of land. These additional parcels gave the landowner access from the roadway again, thereby increasing the value of the remaining 16 acres by several thousand dollars.
$490,000
On a highway-widening project in eastern North Carolina, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (DOT) took roughly 4.1 acres of a 50-acre parcel. The property initially had several hundred feet of road frontage, a family home, a rental home, 2 garages, a couple of wells, a buck barn, and a roughly 40-acre farm and 5 access points to a major highway. After the DOT’s taking only one access point on the southern end of the farm remained, and all of the buildings were gone except for the buck barn. The northern field was no longer accessible because the condemnor had put in water drainage that, when combined with an existing ditch, separated the larger northern field from the southern field.
Through front-end negotiation, a Riddle & Riddle attorney was able to convince the DOT to give the property owner another access on the northern end of the field in order to reclaim some of the property’s value. Our team helped the client facilitate the sale of the remaining property for its remaining value to a third party while retaining the rights to the proceeds of the condemnation, which settled at mediation with the DOT in the amount of $490,000.
$497,000
In 2014, as part of a highway-building project in a rural county in Eastern North Carolina, the North Carolina Department of Transportation took roughly 4 acres of a twenty-acre parcel along the frontage of a county road. The DOT took a family home and a mobile home on the property and controlled access to the property so that the remainder of the property (the remaining 16 acres) was significantly damaged and reduced in value. The landowner felt DOT’s appraiser significantly undervalued the home on the property because of the lack of viable sales in the area and undervalued the property due to the lack of zoning for the rural property. Further, the damages to the remainder of the property were not adequately assessed.
The DOT had stalled at the offer of approximately $384,000. At mediation, a Riddle & Riddle attorney was able to use owner opinion testimony and information from a local broker to increase the DOT’s offer to $497,000 and secure two additional parcels of land. These additional parcels gave the landowner access from the roadway again, thereby increasing the value of the remaining 16 acres by several thousand dollars.
$490,000
On a highway-widening project in eastern North Carolina, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (DOT) took roughly 4.1 acres of a 50-acre parcel. The property initially had several hundred feet of road frontage, a family home, a rental home, 2 garages, a couple of wells, a buck barn, and a roughly 40-acre farm and 5 access points to a major highway. After the DOT’s taking only one access point on the southern end of the farm remained, and all of the buildings were gone except for the buck barn. The northern field was no longer accessible because the condemnor had put in water drainage that, when combined with an existing ditch, separated the larger northern field from the southern field.
Through front-end negotiation, a Riddle & Riddle attorney was able to convince the DOT to give the property owner another access on the northern end of the field in order to reclaim some of the property’s value. Our team helped the client facilitate the sale of the remaining property for its remaining value to a third party while retaining the rights to the proceeds of the condemnation, which settled at mediation with the DOT in the amount of $490,000.
