> From: Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gary Nunn wrote: > > > > > >You might own the house, the garden and the lot, but if you're one > > >of the nearly 50 million Americans living in communities run by > > >homeowners associations, you may find you don't have the freedom to > > >do everything you like on your property. > > > > >http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_homeowners_02419.html > > > > Wowsers. Note to self: Check to make sure self-important people can't set > the rules for what I do to my own house. > > > > Thanks for the link, Gary. > > > > Jim > > Actually this has a wider point: you don't own ANY property, you are just > renting it from the government. Even if you follow the route of the > unibomber, a one room shack that has nothing to do with the outside world, > try and go five years without paying property taxes.
You are forgetting a couple of layers of ownership. The insurance company layer which is right underneath the government layer, and the bank layer that is beneath the insurance layer (if the property is mortgaged).
