(Part 3) A Mystifying Development in the Case of Rumpushole vs Rumpushole

News flash! There IS no honor among rumpusholes! But you probably knew that already.

Hick had in writing (or at least in a text message) the confirmation from Sonny of a property deal. Sonny is the son of Business Owner who has been using HIS LAND for part of a driveway while Hick pays the taxes. The agreement was that Business Owner would pay Hick $1200 for a quit-claim deed to HIS LAND next week in exchange for Hick NOT objecting that evening to a request for a variance to use other properties along the back for another driveway.

Hick followed through with his part of the deal. He went to the variance meeting, and stated that he had reached an agreement with Business Owner, and had no objection to the proposed variance.

The next day, Hick got a text. By way of Sonny, because Business Owner apparently can't be a man and deal directly with Hick (that's MY opinion). This text said that Business Owner wanted a title search, not just a quit-claim deed.

Well, the joke is on Business Owner, because Hick had already decided to have a title company handle the paperwork, and the gal there told him it's actually $15 cheaper to include a title search rather than just the deed. AND Business Owner had said he would pay half to get the title search. Which will cost $300. So now that's another $150 going into Hick's pocket from the sale of HIS LAND.

That's a good thing. Though it's not the deal that was struck at the 11th hour to shut Hick's objecting mouth.

But here's another mystifying development! Hick found out that the other pieces of land that got notices about the variance hearing were all ALREADY OWNED BY BUSINESS OWNER! Whether he had purchased them initially, or through the years, we don't know.

Hick was THE LONE OBSTACLE STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE VARIANCE!

If Hick had objected, even though HIS LAND was not in the area that needed variancing... Business Owner would have been denied. I don't know what effect that might have had on his business. Maybe he would have put in another driveway anyhow, as he did over Hick's land. Maybe nothing would have happened.

It seems to me that Business Owner got to looking into the legality of things after telling Hick to go eff himself because he wasn't going to buy HIS LAND back in June.

It would please Rumpushole Hick to no end, thinking that he's been living rent-free in Business Owner's head for the past six months.