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At least in the US, property ownership has been public record. You can look up who owns any parcel of land. You can't opt out of your address being public. It's
by bastawhiz 2y ago
At least in the US, property ownership has been public record. You can look up who owns any parcel of land. You can't opt out of your address being public. It's just somewhat easier to search this data in today's era.
- skybrian 2y agoThere are apparently ways to opt out of that too, with a land trust or shell corporation.
- acdha 2y agoNot everyone owns a house, and people with privacy concerns have for a long time used companies or trusts to hold property or to simplify family ownership (my next-door neighbors are nowhere near rich but used a family trust to simplify inheritance when the owner started getting old).