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Message:: [QUOTE="dcarr, post: 25534833, member: 4781"]I had a wild/natural totally undeveloped 35-acre plot that was up and over a rocky ridge. It was not good for anything except perhaps a home site with a great view. It would have been difficult to build on it, but I was thinking about it. Then the county decided that they could stick it to all the vacant land owners. Property taxes on that plot went from $25 one year and then $6,500 the next. The taxes have gone up every year since, but I sold it. I currently have a 3.5-acre residential plot with nothing built on it and those property taxes are $10,000 a year. So it is obvious that you know nothing about it. Wealthy land owners in Cuba during the revolution were stripped of everything they own except what they could escape the country with in-hand. Something like that is extremely unlikely to occur here, but it is not impossible. It has happened many times around the world. And many people around the world want gold so that they can go somewhere with it. Are you going to be able to hold on to your land if thousands of "squatters" come flooding into the area ? Like I said, land is great and everybody should have some. But you don't actually own it. The county owns it and leases it to you via taxes. Stop paying your taxes and see how fast the County comes and evicts you. Or maybe the big land developer or highway department will take for "emminent domain" ?[/QUOTE]