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the assessed value of the parcel designated folio 3143.5
was $110,240, or 23.32 percent of the total.
In late 1989, Mr. Sirmans signed an exclusive listing
agreement with Mr. Joe Wegman of Wegman Associates, Inc.,
Realtors (Wegman Realty), a company that had been in
existence for over 30 years. Wegman Realty placed signs
on the property and engaged in direct mail advertising in
an attempt to sell the property. For the so-called dry
land, Wegman Realty set the purchase price at $25,000 per
acre. Despite Wegman Realty's marketing efforts that
included showing the land to approximately 200 persons,
no offer to purchase the property was received.
In January 1990, shortly after signing the exclusive
listing agreement with Wegman Realty, Mr. Sirmans learned
that Hillsborough County was planning to acquire a portion
of the decedent's land for a road project. Mr. Sirmans
hired an attorney, Mr. George Phillips, to represent him
before the County and at public hearings. In February
1990, Mr. Phillips sent Mr. Sirmans a letter which stated
that there was virtually no chance of selling the property
during the time it would take for the County to consider
the road project. One of the "chief difficulties" that
Mr. Wegman had in marketing the property was the fact that
the road right-of-way was not definite and, as Mr. Wegman
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