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- From: bobpassl@boi.hp.com (Bob Passell)
- Subject: Corporate-owned housing
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:27:53 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
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- I was touring a major american city (thinking about a job
- transfer) with a real estate agent who took me through
- a number of vacant homes that were currently held by
- corporations who relocated the former owners. She said
- she preferred this because it didn't require a lot of
- appointments (and I did give her short notice). It made
- me wonder, though...
-
- When someone is transferred and the relocation company
- takes over the house, who owns it? The relocation company
- is the obvious answer, but I was wondering if the former
- owner's employer still had some interest in it. Never having
- been transferred in this manner, I was wondering if housing
- like this might be easier to acquire at bargain prices.
- Or would the fact that the owner was a corporate entity
- with a capital budget and no emotional reason for selling
- the house pretty much mean that it would be priced (and sold)
- at pretty much the prevailing market rate no matter how long
- it took?
-
- Anyone know how this works?
-
- Bp
-
-