You’re an American, and you’ve got rights. It comes with the territory, literally and figuratively. It’s not just the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. No, the rights you have as a property owner sometimes go way beyond that which you would ordinarily assume you have. The land you own, the land your home is on, may very well have a bevy of natural resources lurking underneath. As long as you own that land, the rights to whatever wealth rests beneath the crust reside with you. However, there is a scenario in which you might envision selling those rights to others in exchange for something incredibly valuable.
Cashing in on Your Property’s Value
What’s more valuable than, say, oil or gas? The money you can get in exchange for those resources, that’s what. You might think that the only way to make money off of oil or gas finds on your property is to drill for it all. You’d be wrong, though. Drilling takes time, and a fair investment of men and materiel. There’s not even a guarantee that an oil or gas deposit will turn out to be as lucrative in the drilling as it seemed at the moment of discovery. Selling your Pennsylvania mineral rights could be the path to overnight wealth you’ve been looking for, and is more of a “sure thing” than any drilling project might be.
Different states have many different laws governing the exploration for natural resources, and any drilling that might occur as a result from successful exploitation of any finds. You could play it safe, and hope for the best from drilling, but the oil and gas market can be as unpredictable as it can be lucrative. Neither you nor the drilling company has as much of an influence over global oil and gas prices as you might otherwise wish, meaning a moment of hesitation now could wind up costing you a huge amount of profit in the near and distant future. By selling your mineral rights, you could get an immediate payoff on an uncertain thing.
A Risk Worth Taking
People will bet on a sure thing. Oil and gas drilling isn’t always a sure thing in itself, but the potential for profit usually is. If your property has value because of natural resources, then you have rights to whatever potential lies beneath your property. Since you have those Pennsylvania mineral rights, it makes sense to want to claim them for yourself. However, selling those rights to those who can exploit them for your and their mutual benefit could prove far more enriching than the mere discovery of valuable minerals and energy sources on your property could ever be. You owe it to yourself, and your future, to think about it.
