When there is government, an organization to protect the property rights, then there is no other choice. It must have a registry of the properties it is to protect. That is the direction I want the Property Tax thread to get back to eventually, after exhausing the other possibilities. - Privately pay the mill tax on the services you would like, selecting them from last year's CAFR.
That topic btw took some wonderful turns on the "private" brain trust side - email broadcasts. I will likely bring some Crosstalk back into that thread here to produce some more development here.