Visit Washington D.C. and see the Declaration and the Constitution. 

This just in:AP:Schwarzenegger declares Calif. drought emergencyApparantly the money has dried up!

Could be a "lien", could be a "certificate", could be a "notice" or "declaration".

Just before Covid was made a money tree by our president as he declared a national Emergency, I found my 2 homes that were just perfect!

In other cities, mayors have declared states of emergency that bar evictions from moving forward.

If they get the privilege of that responsibility (emergency declarations) they can not off-load the responsibility.  

The IRS does allow you to group your properties into a single activity, but you have to make a separate declaration to this effect in your tax return.

Stuff my 401K and IRA and every other tax-advantaged vehicle like a pinata, then quit once I hit my numbers, roll as much of it as possible into the IRA and start laddering it out into a Roth while I lived off the duplex cash flow and declared on-paper depreciation losses year after year.Become a long-distance slumlord?

If you declare bankruptcy, the loan will still stay with you and you must pay.

So it appears that the GSE model is officially being declared dead by the Obama administration and is nearing major reform from what I am reading from a number of sources.