text: Good coverage of a very important issue....loss of private property rights. Thanks for reporting this. And many thanks to the people who pushed to retain and exercise their rights. Ownership of real property is not necessarily such a nice thing as the real estate, lenders, and related businesses would have us believe. Often, a simple owner of a single property, is abused by neighbors whose trees overhang, but who refuse to trim, or whose dogs break a common boundary fence but refuse to repair or replace, or in the case of  Marco Polo situation, are simply victims of a horrible disaster due to circumstances well beyond their control. Other countries have better schemes for residential property ownership and management which may not always be the single sole owner, but some form of ownership whereby the resident has protections enforced by government. What do elderly owners do in situations like this? Just suffer it out until they die? We have a cruel world here. Thanks for highlighting.