Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Former spiritual retreat put on auction block...
On Aug 9, 2011, at 4:07 PM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > > "Forest Summit, a 381-acre development outside Boone that was > > once a campus for practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, > > is to be auctioned off Sept. 14. > > > > The sellers, brothers David and Earl Kaplan, have set the > > reserve price - the minimum price they will accept - at > > $2,485,000. > > > > The center, about 200 miles west of Raleigh, includes 26 > > buildings and nearly 340,000 square feet of dining halls, > > classrooms, office and warehouse space, and 418 apartment > > units." > > > > Read more: http://bit.ly/nmq1LX > > I think Larry Flynt should buy it, and turn it into > a film studio for his Hustler porn movies. > > Not because I'm terribly interested in porn...I just > think it'd be funny. Maybe the US military should buy it?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Former spiritual retreat put on auction block...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wgm4u" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > > > "Forest Summit, a 381-acre development outside Boone that was once a campus > > for practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, is to be auctioned off > > Sept. 14. > > > > The sellers, brothers David and Earl Kaplan, have set the reserve price - > > the minimum price they will accept - at $2,485,000. > > > > The center, about 200 miles west of Raleigh, includes 26 buildings and > > nearly 340,000 square feet of dining halls, classrooms, office and > > warehouse space, and 418 apartment units." > > > > Read more: http://bit.ly/nmq1LX > > Sal > > MMY didn't get Nature's support there, I wonder why? If I remember correctly > one of the Kaplan's felt he wasn't getting the whole truth from MMY and was > forced to look else where to find answers, too bad, look at what hung in the > balance > Well, the Kaplans were incensed because their donations were spent differently than they intended, but since this is blatantly illegal they could have easily challenged it in court and gotten their money back... One problem, they clearly profited from the money they donated since it was going to support property adjacent to what they owned, so they shouldn't have been able to take a tax deduction in the first place. Complaining in a court of law would have opened a can of worms they wanted to stay shut, so instead they merely bitched about it in public but didn't actually DO anything to get their money back. L
[FairfieldLife] Re: Former spiritual retreat put on auction block...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > "Forest Summit, a 381-acre development outside Boone that was once a campus > for practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, is to be auctioned off Sept. > 14. > > The sellers, brothers David and Earl Kaplan, have set the reserve price - the > minimum price they will accept - at $2,485,000. > > The center, about 200 miles west of Raleigh, includes 26 buildings and nearly > 340,000 square feet of dining halls, classrooms, office and warehouse space, > and 418 apartment units." > > Read more: http://bit.ly/nmq1LX > Sal MMY didn't get Nature's support there, I wonder why? If I remember correctly one of the Kaplan's felt he wasn't getting the whole truth from MMY and was forced to look else where to find answers, too bad, look at what hung in the balance
[FairfieldLife] Re: Former spiritual retreat put on auction block...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > "Forest Summit, a 381-acre development outside Boone that was > once a campus for practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, > is to be auctioned off Sept. 14. > > The sellers, brothers David and Earl Kaplan, have set the > reserve price - the minimum price they will accept - at > $2,485,000. > > The center, about 200 miles west of Raleigh, includes 26 > buildings and nearly 340,000 square feet of dining halls, > classrooms, office and warehouse space, and 418 apartment > units." > > Read more: http://bit.ly/nmq1LX I think Larry Flynt should buy it, and turn it into a film studio for his Hustler porn movies. Not because I'm terribly interested in porn...I just think it'd be funny.
