I miss my hacienda

We were surprised to know that it has a new owner. We didn't know that it was for sale.

@Alexandoy Being the adjacent neighbor, you have the right of first refusal I think unless you decline because you find the selling price too high. I am not sure of the law (if there is) on that but that is what I recall about selling properties just like an adjacent lot to our cooperative's main office building. The owner wanted to sell it and we were interest but he priced it at 30M which was quite unreasonable for us the property being only about 400 sq.m. and, besides, it was not a roadside lot. There was still another lot in front of it. However, a rich Chinese family having a big store at the other end of the block took it. Several years later, they also bought the roadside lot.

@sunrisefan there might be a law about the first offer but it cannot be enforced when the sale to the new owner was already consummated. And maybe we cannot afford it anyway since we heard it was for 10 million pesos, just for 500 sqm. That's a crazy price.

@Alexandoy aw, bad

It has a caretaker who has the connection to the owner. She didn't tell me that the owner is selling.

I hope you have enough land to restart your garden @Alexandoy

@rebelann no more space in our home because it is a small lot of 280 sqm. I had been giving away some of the seedlings and saplings in my nursery.

The chickens were all given away although there's a few that still remain in the vicinity because they are wild, couldn't catch them. I am really sad about the plants.

My friends call me Haciendero but it's over now. Thanks for that moniker anyway.

@sunrisefan ah, no, because I don't look like a Mafia kingpin, waheehee.

@Alexandoy Did anyone call you Don Alex or Senyor Alex? :)

Yeah, it was a such thing for me. Now I have no more big garden.

@Hannihar yeah, thank you for the consoling words.

@Alexandoy That is a shame and I am sorry Alex.

Hacienda means a big piece of land and the landed families call their estate hacienda. It's just a fancy name for that lot.

@ExplorewtMe landlord, waheehee, that's a joke.

@Alexandoy ohh, I see. You are a landlord.

No more vacant lot left in our street.

It's hard to resist progress. We just have to learn how to adapt to the changes. In fairness to the situation, the planned building of a structure is put on hold. It should have started 2 months ago.

That is highly improbable because the new owner lives just in our street corner. The are the opposite of generous.

That's true.

Oh no, not a restaurant because that would mean noise and people.

Yeah, I was saddened when I learned of the sale but I cannot do anything.

@Alexandoy That's true