Greyed out characters for land mining

I've spent the whole day buying plots with 15 donuts each instead of waiting for the stupid land deed process to drag out. More than a few of the mines pay out 10+ donuts so it's not all that expensive to just buy them and start building, provided you have the sprinkles on hand. I've also moved a bunch of buildings from Springfield into the heights to lay out a fairly nifty western township. Oh, and yes, you have to buy TWO of the special monorail bridges if you want to send your monorail into the "new" territory and bring it back across - that's 40 donuts for the pair. But, it's kinda cool to be buying and building again. I guess it's worth it.