Due to some Government Ag programs that they were enrolled in, the family is prohibited from selling minerals off of this land............I however am NOT! 

If there is damage you have to collect that separately.There is also a government brochure that has to be handed out with the lease which sets out some of the more common landlord and tenant rights and responsibilities.

And the Federal government has their hands tied.

Account ClosedIt will all depend on the long term path of oil prices and how much additional stimulus (read handouts) are given by the AB and federal governments {though they have perhaps learned their lessons in that area}.The real estate market was/is extremely frothy and over valued.  

But I do like Pittsburgh which has half the population it had in 1950.I like state capital cities, lots of good paying government jobs, and I like college towns. 

The issue is one of governance--if there are particular decisions that have to be made with the asset, what voice do you have in the process?  

That impression could be very expensive, time consuming and hard to defend against if a family member or government agency objects later on.  

Mortgage brokers can't set up the mortgage and then sell the note to the government.  

More frightening than having to live under a perceived unfair governing system, is to find yourself with no home, no money, no food to call your own, cut off from your support system. 

I'm not sure where to look for the regulations that govern this situation.