I'm going to admit, here and now, publicly, that I'm at least a bit impressed by Dean. Never thought I'd say that. However the evidence is in and it turns out that Dean actually committed funds and acquired property to start his own Freeman Valley (Deanistan?). Menard has, on many, many occasions, claimed have acquired land for his Freeman Valley, or Hobbiton, or Moose Head Junction, or whatever he planned to call it. However there is no reason to assume he even got off his couch. He certainly put no money at risk. Clifford at least put money down on real estate in northern British Columbia. As with all of Dean's ventures it fell apart but he tried.
It starts with this document. The September 2012 purchase of bare land in the Prince Rupert area.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/grwy5yl9w ... eement.pdf
Note the word "foreclosure" in the link name; that tells you where this story is going.
AGREEMENT FOR PURCHASE AND SALE
BOWEN CONTRACTING LTD., Inc. no. 299051
9100 Meades Creek Road, P.O. Box 923,
Lake Cowichan, B.C. VOR 2GO
(hereinafter called the "Vendor")
DEAN CLIFFORD
Box 123
Matlock, Manitoba ROC 2BO
(hereinafter called the "Purchaser")
A. The Vendor is the registered owner of the lands located on the Skeena River, BC having a legal description of District Lot 7550, Range 5, Coast District, PID no. 015-196-691
(the "lands")
B. The Vendor has agreed to sell and the Purchaser has agreed to purchase the lands on the terms and conditions hereinafter appearing.
Dean agreed to a price of$100,000 payable as;
(a) The sum of TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) DOLLARS payable by the Purchaser to the Vendor upon execution of this agreement
(a) the sum of NINETY THOUSAND ($90,000.00) DOLLARS. being the principal balance together with simple interest thereon at the rate of 6.50% per annum, calculated annually not in advance, to be paid by interest monthly payments in the amount of FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN ($487.50) DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS every month commencing on October 1, 2012, and then on the 1st day of each and every month thereafter up to and including September 1, 2013, when the full balance of principal and interest outstanding shall become immediately due and payable.
The terms did not allow Dean much leeway to build his Freemanistan.
6. The Purchaser shall not commit voluntary or permissive waste on the lands. In addition, the Purchaser shall not construct any buildings, erect any structure or otherwise place any permanent structures on the land without obtaining the prior written consent of the Vendor. Only tents or other temporary structures required for camping or temporary stays on the lands are permitted. Further, the Purchaser shall not remove any timber or other vegetation from the lands without the prior written consent of the Vendor.
By road the land is 36 miles east of Prince Rupert, the principal town of north-west British Columbia. However it only holds that distinction because there is little else for hundreds of miles. Prince Rupert is on the coast with only one road, the Yellowhead Highway, connecting it to the rest of B.C. The highway is a difficult drive which winds around through the Coast Range Mountains. Apart from Kitimat, a company town on the coast, the nearest sizeable town to Prince Rupert on the highway is Smithers, over 200 miles away. Prince Rupert is located on the slope of the mountains going into the Pacific Ocean and there is so little flat land in the area that the airport is on an island with only ferry access to Prince Rupert. In other words, isolated. This link shows Dean's Land;
http://www.mediafire.com/view/bec6701uv ... re_map.png#
If you have Google Earth this link will give you a good idea of the area;
http://www.mediafire.com/download/xp6jo ... 03I012.kmz
Note the yellow line running along the north bank of the river. That is the Yellowhead Highway. However Dean's land was on the south bank with no bridge access to the highway and no roads at all around it for miles so the only access is by boat. A real Freeman Valley apart from the fact that the land is useless for any homesteading purposes. Rains all the time, no utilities, not arable, no communications, nothing. But Dean had dreams.
This document gives a description of the property at the time of purchase. It appears that Dean wildly overpaid for it.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/oe5qx21re ... rofile.pdf
Dean was supposed to pay the entire purchase amount off by September 2013. Since he was otherwise occupied he didn't do so. The agreement was extended a few times but in the end the vendor started foreclosure proceedings;
http://www.mediafire.com/view/byp8q528k ... tition.pdf
This is dated September 2014 at which time, as we know, Dean was languishing in jail. On the 29th of October 2014 the court issued an Order Nisi;
http://www.mediafire.com/view/17fycgb3w ... r_Nisi.pdf
For those of you as unschooled in law as I am Wikipedia describes an Order Nisi as;
A decree nisi or rule nisi (from Latin nisi, meaning "unless") is a court order that does not have any force unless a particular condition is met.[1] Once the condition is met, the ruling becomes a decree absolute (rule absolute), and is binding.[2] Typically, the decree becomes absolute unless the adversely affected party provides satisfactory evidence or argument that the decree should not take effect.[2] For that reason, a decree nisi may also be called a rule, order or decree to show cause.
The condition imposed in the Order Nisi that gave Dean some leeway was that the Degree Absolute would not be issued until April 24, 2015 giving Dean time to pay out the purchase price. But, on April 24th, it was game over and the Order Absolute kicking Dean out was issued just this week;
http://www.mediafire.com/view/jm7yv2fg2 ... solute.pdf
