Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
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If the government doesn't know it's own building, then can a squatter take it via adverse possession?
It's always scary when HAI has an idea
It sounds like the government DOES have an idea, only there is no centralized database. Most of these are not lost, because there is at least one government agency which keeps track of it.
Man I didnt realize the federal government was as decentralized as the US itself
There is a very creepy abandoned hospital owned by the feds in my hometown-would love to see it gone, but the feds apparently don’t know they own it
the GSA auctions website is a hidden gem. Just a while couple weeks ago they were auctioning off 3 bitcoin. And also a UH-60 blackhawk helicopter.
Just like how the military doesn’t know where its money goes… (and is the only federal agency that hasn’t passed an audit)
There's one building, the Boathouse, at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, that has no government records of it being built. It was built by Marines with almost entirely supplies stolen from the Navy Engineers that we're building the nearby Railroad. No orders existed for it's building. It wasn't officially a building on base for a while then it was given a building number.
1.7 billion sounds like a huge amount of money until you remember that the government spends 6.5 trillion a year, so this waste accounts for less than .03 percent of government spending. It's the equivalent of someone who makes $60000 dollars a year losing 15-20 bucks. Kinda annoying, but not something you spend a ton of time worrying about
Lemme take a wild guess: the government has exempted itself from "sqatters' rights," so even if you found abandoned government property and lived there the allocated time, it would do you no good.
I just went on the GSA auction site while bored at work, and I've gotta say, the lighthouses are somehow not the coolest listing.
Wow, I never thought my former employer would be mentioned. I remember one time during a routine audit, we identified land with UXO and used car tires dumped on the land we were attempting to sell. It couldn't be sold for any public land use due to the UXO. It was discussed that cattle farming might be an acceptable use, since it is okay a cow blows up instead of a child.
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You should definitely buy a lighthouse, and make it HAI world headquarters
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President Dodgeball is definitely how I'm referring to him from now on
People will often say the government is too big and bloated and needs to be run more like a business, and this would seem a good example. But I can tell you from working inside the corporate office of a Fortune 20 company that this is a situation businesses also deal with. I see competing interests and in-fighting among different departments and groups at work all the time. I've also seen numerous instances of group A needing something to get their job done, but group B totally ignores it because it's not part of their core work and they don't deem it important to them. And I would bet my annual salary that the company has millions in unused assets and doesn't know what assets it does and does not have.
Pretty simple to fix. Tell all agency's that they can't request any new additional funding unless they report accurately and uniformly all their properties.
Still surprised your staff haven't started a mutiny over the weird requests you ask of them
Fun fact: The State Dept owns the former Iranian Embassy in San Francisco. It is a mansion in the Pacific Heights neighborhood.