Problem with an If statement?

For some reason this always fires the "else" portion in lines 89-93. I can't figure out why. I printed out "term.owner.Value" right before this line of code and it prints out "none" which is exactly the condition that should make it fire the first part, not the else part.

Btw, I set the StringValue owner to "none" by default.

timer1 = game.Workspace.Timer1
timer2 = game.Workspace.Timer2
clickable = true
term = script.Parent
team_color = nil

function refresh_term()
	-- is this needed?
end

function find_team(color)
	for i,v in pairs(game.Teams:GetChildren()) do
		if v.TeamColor == color then
			return v
		else
			-- n/a
		end
	end
end

function cappable(player)
	if tostring(player.TeamColor) ~= team_color and player.TeamColor ~= "Black" then
		team_color = tostring(player.TeamColor)
		return true
	else
		return false
	end
end

function proper_grammar_lol(team)
	if tostring(team) == "FEAR" or tostring(team) == "fear" then
		return "s"
	else
		return "" 
	end
end

function start_timer()
	
end

function stop_timer(Owner, capturer)
	-- needs to go backwards
end

function cap_term_first_time(team)
	
	local gui = game.Workspace.GUIpart.SurfaceGui.Frame.MovingFrame
	local limit = 350 -- size of underlying frame
	local i = 0
	local pixels = 3.5 -- pixels per .1 second
	
	gui.BackgroundColor3 = team.TeamColor.Color

	while i <= limit do
	gui.Size = gui.Size + UDim2.new(0, pixels, 0, 0)
	i = i + pixels
	wait(.1)
	
	end
	
	term.owner.Value = tostring(team)
	
	timer1.change1.BrickColor = team.TeamColor
	timer1.change2.BrickColor = team.TeamColor
	timer1.change3.BrickColor = team.TeamColor
	timer1.change4.BrickColor = team.TeamColor
	timer2.change1.BrickColor = team.TeamColor
	timer2.change2.BrickColor = team.TeamColor
	timer2.change3.BrickColor = team.TeamColor
	timer2.change4.BrickColor = team.TeamColor	
	
	gui.Parent.TextLabel.Text = tostring(team).." own"..proper_grammar_lol(team).." the terminal."
	gui.Parent.TextLabel.TextColor3 = team.TeamColor.Color	
	
end

function cap_term(team)
	local m = Instance.new("Message", workspace)
	m.Text = "YES"
end

script.Parent.ClickDetector.MouseClick:connect(function(hit)
	if clickable == true then
		clickable = false
		
		local player = game.Players:findFirstChild(tostring(hit))
		if cappable(player) then
			if term.owner.Value == "none" then
				cap_term_first_time(find_team(player.TeamColor)) -- CAP TERM FIRST TIME
			else
				cap_term(find_team(player.TeamColor)) -- CAP TERM ANY OTHER TIME
			end
		else
			-- not cappable 
		end
	else
		print("nah b")
	end
	
	clickable = true
end)