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Originally posted by warch
What is not an opportunity for corruption?
Sounds like the owner/builder's issues need to be communicated and pressured to the decisionmakers here. Have they been?
Last fall, in my neighborhood, 3 adults, of the 6 living there, died in an electrical fire in a shoddily modified single family home, remodeled into student "apartments", these were individuals, fresh out of high school, with low incomes. It sparked a fiesty inspection sweep, much to the grumbling of the slum lords.
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government mandate is not an opportunity for corruption? Like tw noted, inspectors have you over a barrel when it comes to interpretation. If tw were my inspector his contempt for folks who avoid paying specialists would no doubt impact his ability to be impartial.
We never believed it was really coming. It is so much the antithesis of the way we (I) think... I cannot fathom the need to control other peoples property and by extension their lives. I usually compartmentalize this, thinking its just the evil politicians but I guess I'm figuring out that my version of freedom is contemptable in the modern US. Owner-builders are an independent lot, I know of no organization containing any significant number. We are not good democrats, preferring to simply be left to our own devices. It just always suprises me that folks are constantly agitating for new laws to use against their neighbors. I know people are annoyed that a few of us built our own places and don't live with morgages over our heads but the spite...
I'm only concerned with private single family houses. I can understand the desire to regulate rental properties and commercial spaces and will leave that argument to Radar.