{"id":1254,"date":"2009-01-04T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/another-shady-real-estate-deal\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:33:37","slug":"another-shady-real-estate-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/04\/another-shady-real-estate-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Shady Real Estate Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.za\/News\/Article.aspx?id=911817\" target=\"_blank\">from the Times South Africa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #474747; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<table xmlns:fo=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/XSL\/Format\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: bold; color: #7e7e69; text-align: left\" class=\"ArticleHead\" colspan=\"2\">Alcoholic sells flat to barman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-align: left; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Byline\">AFP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>ATHENS \u2014 A Greek appeal court has declared void a deal under which an alcoholic traded his apartment to a bar owner in return for free drink for the rest of his life, a newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aura.co.nz\/aura\/htmls\/alcoholic.html\" title=\"ALCOHOLIC by Paul Nicolai\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aura.co.nz\/aura\/resources\/alcoholic.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"231\" width=\"241\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The agreement concerned an apartment worth 33,000 euros (R423,791) which the 62-year old drinker sold to the bar owner for 6,500 euros (R83,474) with the right to live in it rent-free until he died, according to Eleftherotypia.<\/p>\n<p>A tab of 900 euros (R11,500) was written off and the vendor undertook to provide free drinks for the rest of the drinker\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Four years after signing the deal the toper died and his brother took the case to court.<\/p>\n<p>The court said the terms of the deal had been disproportionate and contrary to decent behaviour as they exploited an individual\u2019s dependence.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.za\/News\/Article.aspx?id=911817\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at The Times SA<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Times South Africa Alcoholic sells flat to barman AFP ATHENS \u2014 A Greek appeal court has declared void a deal under which an alcoholic traded his apartment to a bar owner in return for free drink for the rest of his life, a newspaper reports. The agreement concerned an apartment worth 33,000 euros [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}