Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Suing Hawaiin Land Owners To Buy Their Property

That is confusing, how can the land be Zuckerberg' property but owned by someone else? 700 acres... good grief there are 640 acres in a square mile. Many of the parks that I walk a few miles in with the dog are in the 120 acre range.
 
dpwspringer said:
That is confusing, how can the land be Zuckerberg' property but owned by someone else? 700 acres... good grief there are 640 acres in a square mile. Many of the parks that I walk a few miles in with the dog are in the 120 acre range.
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Actually it's smaller plots of land owned by the native or ancestral Hawaiins within that acreage. Unless that particular plot of land was actually sold it remains in the family if I understand the law. That's why they are using genealogical records, once the family or owner is located they have to say they still want it or sell it. Zuckerberg is apparently trying to force a sale no matter what.
 

Over here in the Islands it's always about the $acred lands. Some land is more $acred than others.

Of course, Zuckerberg is the same guy that said some blather about Trump should be "building bridges instead of walls"........
 
All I know about Zuckerberg is Facebook and I don't like it. Facebook is an insidious "Big Brother". I'm not surprised he would be trying to push his weight around in the physical world as well.
 
WhatInThe said:
Actually it's smaller plots of land owned by the native or ancestral Hawaiins within that acreage. Unless that particular plot of land was actually sold it remains in the family if I understand the law. That's why they are using genealogical records, once the family or owner is located they have to say they still want it or sell it. Zuckerberg is apparently trying to force a sale no matter what.
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That makes sense. It is not his property but his property surrounds it and he wants it... correct?
 
Jackie Kennedy did the same thing on Cape Cod to gain more privacy but I believe she only tried to buy it, and did not sue for it...
 
I wonder if I had a couple acres of property and a quarter acre plot sat right in the middle of it that wasn't mine, how would I feel? I'd probably want to buy it too just for the sake of knowing that there wasn't some stranger living in the middle of my own place. The equivalent of someone putting up their pup tent in the middle of my living room?

I would think too, that Zuckerberg probably offered a healthy price for the land and if the owner wasn't amenable, than suing would be the next step.
 
dpwspringer said:
That makes sense. It is not his property but his property surrounds it and he wants it... correct?
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That's it.

Ironically he did or tried something similar but not the same in the US. He took a single home and either tried to or did buy his neighbors house/property on either side. It made a stink because the actual residents don't want him conducting business there which would bring in more traffic and activity in a residential neighborhood.
 

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