Ha, God, a few years back I spent an inordinate amount of time 'banging' on the doors of offices at our county building including Real Property Tax. When you look at the Deed to your property and find the word Tenant on it, it should raise an eyebrow. It raised my husband and mine and sent us on a journey. I made people nervous with the questions I was asking, to the extent that I was told by the senior employee (her title is eluding me at the moment) of the County Clerk's office that she wasn't talking to me anymore without an attorney.

In the end, no one truly owns their land. Obviously if you can lose it to property taxes, then you are renting it, hence the word tenant. Someone owns it. Just like in the 'days of yore' when land was leased by lords. People use the term slave, but I think indentured servant is closer to what we are.