For most BPO's, their position is one almost all property owners share: BPO's purchased property with borders and they have a full bundle of rights and quiet enjoyment with their property, just like every other Walton county property owner. They want the same rights you enjoy with your property.
For BPO's this entire decade long campaign to overturn private beaches is about protecting their property rights, not about keeping locals from using the beach.
1. BPO's have a full bundle of rights. There are no limitations stated on their deeds. There is no blanket public access easement across these properties. The four corners of the deed do not limit the bundle of rights.
2. The property purchased has boundary to the MHWL.
3. The county has recognized private property beach ownership for decades in thousands of documented examples.
4. Most BPO's have no issue with locals use of their property, however most BPO's reject that their property should be forced to bear the full burden of the public and have no say in who uses their property.
5. There's was no legal challenge to BPO's decades of property ownership and rights until the "customary use" legal maneuver started being discussed at the BCC level with Larry Jones and Attorney David Theriaque sometime in the 2000's. Destin tried and abandoned CU in 2002, as the AG's office stated it had to be litigated on a per parcel basis.
The responses to BPO's:
1. The only reason you have a deed to the MHWL was to prevent someone from building in front of you.
2. You only purchased the view, smells and sounds.
3. Because the dry sand is not assessed, you don't pay taxes on it, and you don't really own it.
4. Beach dry sand property is worthless.
5. You knew when you bought your property that the public used it openly and freely.
6. No one owns the beach.
7. Access and use are two distinct concepts. Private access is morally good. Private use is morally wrong.
8. The MHWL moves and so you don't really own the property.
9. Most beach property was obtained illegally by quiet title claims stealing public beach property from the county.
10. Walton county public has always had "customary use".
11. Privatizing beaches is wrong (as if "privatizing" is a new concept).
12. The new law made the public beaches private.
13. Private beach really only ever meant secluded beach.
14. We didn't have any issue until beach front owners put up signs and ropes.
15. People paid $100 for public property and made it private.
16. Deeds and plats have been forged, altered, tampered from the original deeds.
17. BPO's are greedy, elitist, selfish and not part of Walton county community. BPO's are last in the order of protection of their rights: tourists first, beach vendors second, everyone else third, property owners last.
18. Mike Huckabee is responsible for the mess the community is in.
19. There never were private beaches in Walton county until this last round of new owners.
20. Customary use is not about property rights - you still own your property.
For BPO's this entire decade long campaign to overturn private beaches is about protecting their property rights, not about keeping locals from using the beach.
1. BPO's have a full bundle of rights. There are no limitations stated on their deeds. There is no blanket public access easement across these properties. The four corners of the deed do not limit the bundle of rights.
2. The property purchased has boundary to the MHWL.
3. The county has recognized private property beach ownership for decades in thousands of documented examples.
4. Most BPO's have no issue with locals use of their property, however most BPO's reject that their property should be forced to bear the full burden of the public and have no say in who uses their property.
5. There's was no legal challenge to BPO's decades of property ownership and rights until the "customary use" legal maneuver started being discussed at the BCC level with Larry Jones and Attorney David Theriaque sometime in the 2000's. Destin tried and abandoned CU in 2002, as the AG's office stated it had to be litigated on a per parcel basis.
The responses to BPO's:
1. The only reason you have a deed to the MHWL was to prevent someone from building in front of you.
2. You only purchased the view, smells and sounds.
3. Because the dry sand is not assessed, you don't pay taxes on it, and you don't really own it.
4. Beach dry sand property is worthless.
5. You knew when you bought your property that the public used it openly and freely.
6. No one owns the beach.
7. Access and use are two distinct concepts. Private access is morally good. Private use is morally wrong.
8. The MHWL moves and so you don't really own the property.
9. Most beach property was obtained illegally by quiet title claims stealing public beach property from the county.
10. Walton county public has always had "customary use".
11. Privatizing beaches is wrong (as if "privatizing" is a new concept).
12. The new law made the public beaches private.
13. Private beach really only ever meant secluded beach.
14. We didn't have any issue until beach front owners put up signs and ropes.
15. People paid $100 for public property and made it private.
16. Deeds and plats have been forged, altered, tampered from the original deeds.
17. BPO's are greedy, elitist, selfish and not part of Walton county community. BPO's are last in the order of protection of their rights: tourists first, beach vendors second, everyone else third, property owners last.
18. Mike Huckabee is responsible for the mess the community is in.
19. There never were private beaches in Walton county until this last round of new owners.
20. Customary use is not about property rights - you still own your property.