----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:32 PM Subject: Re: Homeowners Associations - Dictatorships in the US?
> Matt Grimaldi wrote: > > > > Kevin Tarr wrote: > > > > > Actually this has a wider point: you don't own ANY > > > property, you are just renting it from the government. > > > > That is a gross untruth. When you own property, you have > > many, many more rights than if you merely rent it. Ownership > > entitles you to the rights to whatever minerals you happen > > to dig up, > > What about the cases in which someone *else* owns the mineral rights to > what's under your topsoil? > Then you get a small fee for your inconvenience if and only if they have to move equipment across your land. I know I do not own the mineral rights under my house, and before I came the neighborhood was in an uproar when there was an oil rig working just a block or two away. The oil under my house is probably being drawn even as we write. :-) Dan M.
