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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3235770, member: 71723&quot;]Well, I am aware that feelings about concepts like &quot;ownership&quot; vary widely depending on locale, and while I do not necessarily agree with such concepts, in my neck of the woods, so-called &quot;historic districts&quot; are nearly ubiquitous as are strange-sounding restrictions on even real-estate ownership. Historical districts dictate what one may, and may not do with one&#039;s own &quot;property&quot;, sometimes extremely strongly. While it was once the case in Pennsylvania that land ownership conveyed the right to have one&#039;s remains interred on one&#039;s homestead, that is no longer the case, even for large rural tracts.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, ownership is a sketchy concept. Fail to pay property taxes and see what happens. Even the law uses interesting terms - &quot;tenants in common&quot;, &quot;tenants in the entirety&quot;, &quot;joint tenants with right of survivorship&quot;. &quot;Tenants&quot; is indeed the accurate term. We &quot;rent&quot; real estate from the government, in a VERY real sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until rather recently, many counties in Pennsylvania had a &quot;personal property tax&quot;, which taxed any and all assets annually. Failure to pay up could cost you your silver stack. Thankfully, that was repealed, but counties are lobbying to re-establish it. &quot;Real&quot; property taxes are no longer cutting it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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