Orrr, if you buy a house, the seller has to file with the state releasing their claim on the deed to the property they sold, while you do not have to file the deed to your new property. If you don't file and put your name on it the state has no claim to it.
When my mom died, she'd inherited from my dad, she left her estate to her only child through a trust; me.
I didn't probate the trust for over a year after she passed. I didn't know she owed property taxes at the time.
Silly me went to get a mortgage on the property and foolishly probated the trust. A short while later the property taxes arrived.
Don't file your deed. The property is none the less yours because the seller filed the paperwork they needed to turn the property over to you. If you buy a house a realtor will say, or you should ask if, they file the deed to the new property. If they say they'll do that for you, refuse. Say, "I'll take care of it."
That's not a lie.
That is the real meaning of private property. Because it is not filed it is not shared in common with the state.
A few years ago there was a family that had a septic issue on one of the back roads here. They're about 20 miles from my house but I heard of this because I had worked with a family that lived across the street from them.
Needless to say in high summer the septic issue got all the neighbors attention. They in turn called the state inspections office to have someone come out and inspect due to the breach.
Turns out when the address was given the supervisor they'd called informed that not only was there nothing they could do about the issue, but neither their vehicles nor even the police, since this wasn't an emergency, could even drive on the property.
It was a totally private property.
The issue of the septic was corrected after neighbors sent the family there letters asking them to repair the problem.
True. What gives them that contractual power? The state issued birth certificate.
Your self. You belong to you. :)
Homeless victimize homeless.
A few year ago certain counties in the mid-US as I recall made news concerning their homeless. They passed laws declaring it illegal to be homeless within the designated limits of certain counties/cities.
Consequently, the county/cities rounded up all the offender homeless and transported them across that city/county line into the jurisdiction of the next city/county.
Some city/counties even made news making it illegal to feed the homeless. Some made news shutting down church efforts to feed them. Members of a congregation would cook meals and package them up and distribute them. Why was this shut down? Because the city/county officials said there was a food safety concern in that the kitchen(s) preparing the meals hadn't been the subject of the health inspector like commercial kitchens are.
Riiiight. We are talking about a people who dumpster dive in hopes of eating what I've thrown away. And these officials shut down the charity afforded by good people making meals in their home kitchens! And because the homeless they intend to feed might get sick due to those kitchens not coming under scrutiny by a government kitchen official.
There's always room for popcorn. ;) I cut my own hair for the first time about six months ago. Prior to that I dared risk only trimming my bangs. Turns out, I now give myself a better haircut than I've had from any beautician. And my natural curls finally show up. Whereas before every hairdresser said because my hair is so fine I could only hope for waves. Oh, look! They were wrong.
