I’m so torn on it. It’s like a soft ownership where you do have a lot of legal protections and freedom to do what you want with the land, but at the core, you do not own it.

You can dink around on the property and build whatever but the county can also come demand money and retroactive permitting if they catch you doing something against their rules.

It fucking sucks. But at the same time, I would love to have the food security and energy independence land can provide.