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by mothballed 1y ago
Or just apply the law equally? If you want to vote to increase regulation you agree it applies to your own house. If you're going to impose some $10,000 sprinkler system on the new guy you better be willing to renovate your house too
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by mothballed 1y ago
Another thing people do in places like the Big Island (HI) is they drop shipping container houses on worthless lava field land owned under a burner LLC and every time the county gets to them they just burn the LLC and move the container to
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by mothballed 1y ago
Yes but the unique piece here is ratcheting up of ever increasing codes, zoning, regulations while grandfathering in the old housing. The people voting made their own houses illegal but then said their own houses were exempt. They've
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by mothballed 1y ago
It's illegal in most the US but by selecting my county intentionally from the start I found a place within 20 minutes of a ton of jobs, grocery store, etc. I did it legally with permits, but my permit basically said "ok to build
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by mothballed 1y ago
There are places that still allow it. Not enough for everybody to do it. But since there is no 'fad' of doing it right now, not much competition, anyone who might come across my comment and reasonably wishes to do this near a pl
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by mothballed 1y ago
Buy land. Save. Put RV on it. Save. Build utilities. Save. Build tiny house. Save. Expand house. This is what poor people do in latin america, sans the RV. They just buy blocks as they can and add on to it. This is also exactly what ou
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by mothballed 1y ago
When/if the war on drugs finally ends this will be the next tool. It's such a radioactive topic that no one wants to point out the obvious ease with which information possession laws can be used to frame innocents.
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by mothballed 1y ago
This is why being a septic guy seems like a good gig. I paid my septic guy $10k for one day's labor, with about $4k in materials to come in with a massive excavator and one helper. I'm sure the cost of his excavator ran into ~$1k
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by mothballed 1y ago
Doesn't seem like much. We eliminated electrical (and other) inspections and paperwork 20+ years ago and none of the paranoid delusions of the nay-sayers came true.
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by mothballed 1y ago
Almost half the world is children, elderly, or disabled. The first two have reduced capacity to run a business and the latter have reduced earning capacity to obtain the business. Once you consider maybe half of all humans even have the ch
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by mothballed 1y ago
There's quite a few places in the US where no electrician license is required to be an electrician. Alternatively where I live (Arizona) a license is required to offer services but as long as the contractor is licensed the guy doing th
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by mothballed 1y ago
Maybe, but with youtube I ran the service entry, underground secondary, a multi-structure multi-panel electrical system distribution and the residential inside. I have zero electrician training. Our county eliminated building codes, licens