I have an acquaintance whose grandfather was the farmer who owned a chunk of the land on the northwest side of Wichita along Maize Road where a major shopping center went in about 10-15 years ago including Walmart and Target. A real estate agent who knew the actual value of the land and planned development talked the farmer into selling it to him for something like $200,000 and then turned around and sold it within a week for about $1.5 million. The agent got a tiny slap on the wrist for violating "professional ethics", but still got to keep all the money. The girl's family all wanted the grandfather to hang on to the land, but he would not listen to them and sold it anyway. She's kind of bitter about her potential inheritance going up in smoke.
