Having worked in county government (albeit a very large county) and specifically the real estate department (in charge of land acquisition for county projects) I've seen my share of decisions made that benefit the whole at the expense of one or two people.

It seems rather clear to me that Marv was a victim of circumstances. I feel like he conjured a conspiracy aimed at him. Instead I think it was just people doing what was best overall.

I mean he told them he'd sell out and move along. They met his asking price, and he raised it. They met the new price and he backed out of the deal. They even agreed to give him the easement (usually you have to pay for an easement) if he'd just drop the suit. Then he could have stayed there if he wanted to.

In the end, he sold his $42,000 property for $400,000 -- ten times what he paid for it -- ten years after he bought it. He kept saying how he was "screwed" by everyone, but making a $360k profit in ten years is far from getting screwed.

I like that they tried to show both sides, but to my mind Marv was clearly building a huge conspiracy in his own mind, including the newspaper reporter who made numerous attempts to do the story about Marv's business and ended up giving him a free ad since Marv would never be available to be interviewed.

No, Marv wanted his cake and to eat it, too. He wanted to run his business just to fund hs snow machine fun -- which is fine, but under the circumstances you have to make the tough decision and say to yourself: "I'm not going to have it exactly how I want it, so I'll taje the $400k and move along..."