Stan Kroenke tells hundreds of fixed income residents in Texas to get off his newly-bought land

[linuxman]

33. Precedent and history are fine factors in decision making.

That said, doing something like sinking your life savings into building a home on land that MIGHT (it eventually did) go away is foolish in the extreme. I've been alive my whole life. Every day I wake up, draw breath, go to bed, then do it all again the next day. I've never known any other outcome to my day-to-day life. I still have a will, though. Just because something has been a certain way for many years is no reason to bank on it being that way forever, especially if it remaining the same depends on the actions of other people (the owner's family keeping the land, or someone not hitting me with a car tomorrow afternoon)