I ran into something strange...last week, some organization SOLICITED (very unusual; never known to happen), by mail, all of my sibs and me, wanting us to sell our mineral royality rights...they offered only 3 1/2 years' yield (pretty poor, considering that these wells have been steady).
What I found out was that this "company" cannot be found on any website other than their own. They buy and sell to "private individuals" (Mexico? Al Qaida? Venezuela? China?), and ask for information that could open us up for identity theft, fraud, etc.
More, some Mexicans are making claims that their great-great-grandparents were forced off the land (TX) in the 1930s by oil companies, and are suing to get their hands on the royalties. Murder (!) is involved in one such dispute.
I've been advised to have all of my siblings and myself "stonewall", so that we DON'T sell, and we're all "on the same page". This deal smells like yesterday's mackerel catch.
Perhaps you should create a "Socio-economic/Political Ramifications of Weather Anomolies" forum.
