A family keeps turning down millions for its house next to the Masters golf course

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• Augusta National, the home of the Masters, has been buying up property around the course for nearly two decades.
• One family refuses to sell the home where they raised children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, turning down seven-figure offers.
• Their house, which sits on two-thirds of an acre, is surrounded by a huge parking lot once a year.

Over the past 17 years, Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia has bought up much of the land that borders its private grounds.

Off the northwest corner of the club sits a free parking lot, Gate 6-A, a stretch of empty land that was once a fully lived-in neighborhood. The club spent $40 million to buy and bulldoze the homes, offering the residents prices that were just too enticing to turn down.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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