Land purchase are public record. They are generally recorded at the county court house.
I agree, foreigners shouldn't have ownership of our strategic resources, or our politicians.
Yes, they are but, I will give you an example of why I have a little bee in my bonnet: My BOL2 is surrounded by thousands of acres of forestry land. So before I bought, I looked into who owned it.
It is an American land management company based in Houston but, the major financing partner is the Chinese. It took me quite a bit of research to track that down. They are getting sneaky and doing their best to remain opaque.
That land is oil and gas land; crickets and gas storage all over...as a matter of fact, a major oil pipeline runs right through the middle of it and a gas line along the north!
When we were in the bidding process for BOL2, there were 8 bidders. I had to outbid them for that property. One of them, I found out after the fact, (law prohibits me from being told who the other bidders were during) was this Chinese company. Since then, not a week goes by that I don't get an "offer" from some "investing company" interested in buying the lower 30 that abuts two of their plats.
The land for my BOL went for more than two and a half times asking price, taking it out of the reach of all of the locals who are mostly ranchers and farmers. There were only two cash offers; mine and guess who else?
At first, you look at it, and its like, what harm is there in the Chinese Communist Government owning a bunch of timber but, then when you look more closely, and find those pipelines running through there....is that really something you would want the Chinese or any hostile having access to?
Who gets to decide?
I'm all for being able to sell your land to whomever you would like. I am not for selling out your country to make a bigger buck.
