The National Association of Rural Landowners

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS WITH GOVERNMENT?
Because of our direct experience, it is very likely that we can help.

Every single day throughout America, landowners are coming face to face with draconian land use regulations about which they have no knowledge. Government comes knocking on their door about some code violation and wants fines, penalties and mitigation or restoration of the alleged violation. It is especially worse, closer to large urban centers. There is no trial here. You are guilty until proven innocent. Pay up, restore or mitigate, or lose your property to those fines and penalties. The "Due Process" clause in the 5th Amendment doesn't apply here, even though it should. In some worst cases, the government will criminalize the violation and can have a judge throw the landowner in jail. We know of one man and his son who went to federal prison for doing something on their property that they had permits to do. After the landowner received the permits and started work, the federal government (Army Corps of Engineers) revoked their permits and then charged the pair with a federal crime, filling in a wetland. The judge overruled their evidence and sent the father and son to federal prison for 21 months. Has the "police state" finally arrived in America?

Or the landowner attempts to get a permit to do something on their property only to be told, after spending thousands of dollars on application fees, they can't do what they want to do. Horror stories abound. The poor landowner has to face this government gauntlet all by him or herself and hardly anyone will come to the rescue. Most folks throw up their hands and either walk away, or worse, they capitulate to what the government requires them to do without a whimper. Many a time we have been in some planning agency when a property owner comes in and wants to give some portion of his property to one or more of his children. He is told that due to this regulation or that, he can't do it. The poor man walks out mumbling to himself, "can this still be America?"

Many of the land use ordinances that have been passed are patently unconstitutional and only on very rare occasions will someone challenge that unconstitutionality, in court. To do so can cost thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and most landowners are not that flush. Many have gone broke and lost their property trying.

We established the National Association of Rural Landowners because of the difficulties we ran into in the normal course of our business from outrageous land use ordinances and the difficulties other landowners ran into that we were assisting. Our staff has over 30 years in direct, hands on real estate knowledge, experience and consulting, in all most every issue that a landowner could come up against.

We offer a two-step phase to assist you with your problems.

Phase I: $99.00 (US funds)

Send us your check or money order for $99.00 to "NARLO - Phase 1" at P. O. Box 1031, Issaquah, WA 98027, along with a detailed letter of all of the difficulties you have faced, or are facing, at the hands of government. We will send you a detailed report on suggestions for solutions to those problems. The more details you provide in your letter, the more useful will be our report. Identify your immediate problems and include a general location (near what city and in what state) and a boundary map of your property. Be sure to include the acreage and show the general location of any buildings relative to the boundaries. If you have ground or aerial photographs that would also be useful. Also provide copies of any letters from government agents with the issues that are affecting your property. If wetlands, rivers, streams or lakes are an issue, insert their approximate locations on your boundary map and why they are issues. We may call or write to you, if we need more information.

WITH YOUR CHECK YOU ALSO BECOME A MEMBER OF NARLO.

In addition to our report, you will automatically become a member of the National Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO), receive a complimentary copy of our "FREEDOM DISC" (in Microsoft WORD format) and receive 12 issues of our monthly newsletter, "DON'T TREAD ON ME". We will also add your e-mail address (if you have one) to our list, to which we send constant updates, alerts and messages on freedom, liberty, property rights, land use, eminent domain and even illegal immigration.

PHASE II (Fee per hour, plus direct expenses)

In some cases, a much more detailed analysis will be required to solve some land use problems. If this situation presents itself, you will be so advised in our Phase I report. If you engage us under Phase II, our fees are:

On the job is billed at $99 per hour, plus all expenses that are directly related to the job. This would include travel, lodging and meals, or any expenses we incur in obtaining pertinent information to assist in our analysis, or in providing solutions. (Try and find an attorney at $99.00 per hour and in the long run there is a good chance that we will know more than an attorney, because of our direct, hands-on experience with these issues.)

All travel time to get to the location, or to and from the job while at the location, is billed at $25.00 per hour. (It isn't fair to bill someone the full rate while sitting in a car or riding on an airplane, but attorneys will bill you their full rate.)

These are some of the areas on which we can help in a Phase II analysis:

Research & inspect properties
Perform property due diligence
Answer questions on Escrows & Title
Answer questions on zoning and permits
Work on title problems & land takings
Answer questions on easements and surveys
Prepare sales fliers & brochures for sellers
Prepare estimated development costs
Take aerial photographs
Prepare Business Plans
and more

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All of our fees go directly into the National Association of Rural Landowners and are used in the expenses NARLO occurs in defending, preserving and protecting property rights. The net result is, we will be assisting you with your problems and you will be helping NARLO to defend freedom and property rights. It is a win-win scenario.

NO TRESPASSING SIGNS

Many of the problems that people face from government can be forestalled by putting up strongly worded NO TRESPASSING signs around the property. We know of some cases against landowners that have been thrown out by a judge because a government agent crossed onto property that was posted by No Trespassing signs.

NARLO is selling just such a strongly worded No Trespassing sign. Be sure to visit the NO TRESPASSING sign page on this website.