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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Generosity with conditions isn't generosity. The church expected to get new members out of it, I suspect, and they feel cheated because they didn't get what they wanted.
If I give somebody something, and they get more value and use out of it by selling it, I'm happy for them to do that.
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Hit the nail on the head.
Once you give a gift, you cannot complain about hw it's used if you were too dumb to put a caveat into the gift rules.
I personally have a concern about a church group that thought giving a house was the way to go - surely the most sensible thing to do would have been to rent out the house for a marginal fee, or let people live in it for nothing, if theyre worried that someone else has profitted by it.
Could also be sour grapes - the church gave a 75g house that was sold for 88g - nice return.