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submitted 2 months ago by Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.world

TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her house.

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[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago

It's surprising because it was not worth that at the time, and she knew they'd develop all around her, and she lived there. This wasn't an investment property and she wasn't holding out for more. She was just stubborn and didn't want to move. It has sold a couple times since then for ~300k.

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

She died 2 years later. Assuming she was old and/or in poor health, I can absolutely understand not wanting to move. It's especially stressful for the elderly who may have lived there for decades. And it's not like she could take the money into the afterlife anyway.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh. That's the story then. The story isn't that she was offered a million and refused. That's normal.

The story is that she sold it for $0.3 million later. That's remarkable.

[-] uranibaba@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

She died before it was sold.

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