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This card makes it clear that you're not trying to buy part of the city, you're trying to buy the *land*, which is the Creditor. You cannot own a portion of the Creditor, no matter how much your capitalist dreams make you want to.
Also, "we practically did everything aside from build the line ourselves" ah so we did like 10% of the work, gotcha.