All I want for Christmas...

[auld argonian]

There was a promotion for "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon" that was hatched during the 1950's...if you sent in the box tops, you got a deed to one square inch of a land plot int he Yukon Province of Canada. I've heard that people show up at the Antiques Roadshow with the deeds and want to know if they're still of any value...sadly, they aren't...I've seen the paper deeds for sale on Ebay. Not a scam, just a promotion for a TV show and a breakfast cereal but fun to remember. So what's the harm? And if it helps to keep some land from being developed, all the better...I can think of a few places in the USA where it might be a good idea for a lot of people to buy a square foot or a square inch or an acre just to keep the land from developers who want to create more suburban sprawl. Seems like it's all in good fun...but if you do want to put a house on it, try this guy's products:

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm

Best

AA

[gilmore]

So what's the harm? And if it helps to keep some land from being developed, all the better...I can think of a few places in the USA where it might be a good idea for a lot of people to buy a square foot or a square inch or an acre just to keep the land from developers who want to create more suburban sprawl. Seems like it's all in good fun
AA

To quote from the website:
"In this day and age, status is everything
Being a member of the titled few will change your life. Preferential treatment could be around every corner

We sell a compete package for only £29.99 which will give you the recognition you deserve. You are purchasing one square foot of land in Lochaber, gaining with it the inherent right to style yourself Laird of Lochaber.

Absolutely Legal:
Scots law and traditions state that any Scottish estate owner can be styled as Laird (Scottish equivalent of Lord) or Lady"

This simply is not true.

The harm is that these tiny pieces of land are being sold as if there was actually a lairdship that goes with them. There is not. Or that it is, or rather was, possible for several people to own the same feudal barony and claim to be the laird of it. It was not. Some people think they are thus buying a feudal barony. They are not.


It is true that Scottish feudal baronies are the only European titles of nobility that can be bought and sold, but the feudal system of holding land in Scotland was abolished a few years ago, so that these titles no longer are attached to the land, or vice versa. See here:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/deleted/l...10/afs2-01.htm

especially this section which is directly on point: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/deleted/l...10/afs2-12.htm

When some one advertises and sells something that does not exist, it is called fraud.