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home owners in the national observance of Private property Week,” said Bill Lyne, president of the Piedmont Board of Realtors. “Private Property Week annually honors the historic right of all Americans to own homes as well as the land the homes stand on. This right is one we tend to take for granted in this country. Although private property rights exist elsewhere in the world, nowhere are they as free from restrictions and government control as in the United States,” said Lyne.
He said that “ours is the only nation that grew out of the free transfer of land title. This was made possible by the Ordinance of 1785, enacted by Congress three years before the Constitution was drawn up.”
A number of land acts in the United States, most notably the Homestead Act of 1862, made land available to everyone almost free of charge. Although present costs are a far cry from the days of homesteading, the basic right still remains and must be protected, Lyne said.
“It is our job to preserve these private property rights from government encroachment and in this regard, the Association of Realtors has and will continue to speak out whenever these rights are threatened,’’ he concluded.
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