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Mysterious land trust behind backyard property dispute once bought a private, dead-end road - YouTube
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cheated lied to or tricked
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she's tackling every opportunity to make
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something that went wrong
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right better call bacon is on your side
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last week we told you about a peculiar
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controversy involving a mysterious
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land trust and an oddly shaped property
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it owns behind people's homes and
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holiday
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this dispute over a 20-foot wide parcel
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that homeowners thought was part of
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their backyard
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is driving the people who live there
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crazy at this point but that's not the
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only odd property that this land trust
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bought eight on your site consumer
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investigator shannon banking joins us
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now
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because you found something else
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interesting i sure did it's not just
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oddly shaped land that caught the eye of
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this investment land trust
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i found that in 2008 it purchased a
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private road
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after the private owner passed away and
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residents tell me the trust
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threatened to cut off access to their
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homes if they didn't buy the roadway
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plaza view drive in zephyr hills is a
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600-foot long
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dead-end road used only by the people
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who live here
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to travel to and from their homes
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tina smith vividly remembers the day in
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2008
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when a man from a mysterious land trust
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informed her that it had purchased the
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private road
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in a delinquent tax deed sale he's like
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we can put anything down
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on there we can put drag strip down
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there we can you know we can do anything
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we want at property
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it's not your property that was the
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beginning of a battle for about 13
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homeowners
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it ended when they agreed to open their
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wallets and by the road
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now 12 years later residents are
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recounting the ordeal
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after seeing my report about the same
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mystery land trust
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once again negotiating with desperate
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homeowners
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this time in aloha gardens in holiday it
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turns out
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at the same time the investors known
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only as 818-239-2215
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land trust bought this road in 2008
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public records show it also bought this
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odd parcel
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the 20-foot wide land stretches behind
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nine homes
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many people living here had no idea that
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until recently
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this land used as part of their
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backyards
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doesn't belong to them he can charge me
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whatever he wants
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he can trespass me he can put whatever
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he wants back here he can come swim in
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my pool and there's nothing i can do
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about it
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smith and her neighbors ended up forking
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over a combined four
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thousand dollars for the road not a bad
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return for the trust
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thirteen hundred dollar investment but a
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fraction of the more than thirteen
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thousand dollars residents say the trust
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wanted
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smith tells me they had no choice the
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trust she recalls
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considered putting in a convenience
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store and cutting off paths to their
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driveways
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if they had blocked your access to right
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here how would you have gotten in and
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out you would have just go through the
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yard
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yes just as they said everybody could
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drive through my yard
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so who's behind this trust the only name
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on public records
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is local attorney joseph perlman he's
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the trustee
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and tells me what his clients are doing
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is perfectly legal
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and just business he explains they
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bought these parcels because they knew
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that eventually
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someone would be willing to pay are you
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surprised to hear that this is still
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going on
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all these years later no i think it's
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very sad though i mean
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everybody's you know wanting a piece of
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american pie and owning their own home
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for somebody to come in and do that i
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think it's a shameful
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act in the case of the road residents
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tell me this happened when the original
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owner of the roadway
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passed away and the taxes weren't paid
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as for the backyard dispute
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one resident has received a trespass
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warning and another was told that he
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would have to tear down his swimming
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pool
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or buy the land neither of their offers
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have been accepted yet though by the
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land trust
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can we go back to the road for a second
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i mean what happens to that
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long term who officially owns it because
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if you buy
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the land you might sell your house
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exactly and that's what's happening here
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a lot of these folks are you know the
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houses are changing hands people are
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passing away
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but they put this road in all of the
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original homeowner's name
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so looked at the deed it has everyone
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listed there but they have to take care
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of it and they wonder what will happen
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as they die as the as they move away
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what will happen is roe could this
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happen again we're trying to help them
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make sure it doesn't
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all right interesting yeah thank you
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shannon if you have a problem with each
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solvent you better call bacon you can
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reach her on facebook and wfla shannon
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or give her a call at 1-855 beckon
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