'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010)

Re:'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010) by akira2501 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @08:20PM (#13256374)

> I agree it should be optional to just live in an uninsured and unsellable shed if you want.

I'm seeing a lot of that sentiment, and my libertarian nature does agree with it; however, houses are often directly connected to a shared electrical, water and sewage systems -- improper design of a structure can have serious effects on these systems and thus on the neighborhood as a whole.

So, to allow that ideology, you'd also have to prevent these homes from being connected to these services.

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Re:'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010) by oldmancoyote on Sunday December 25, 2016 @10:20PM (#13256742)

If you fail to insulate a wooden wall from a chimney two feet away, in twenty years the wood would now be baked so dry that it could easily ignite and burn to death someone who bought the house. A building inspector stopped me from making this mistake.

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Re:'All I wanted to do is build a house' (2010) by nommm-nommm on Sunday December 25, 2016 @09:13PM (#13256538)

Even if they weren't, unsafe properties affect the property values of those around it.

And of course... So many other things... Your shoddily constructed deck can blow into my house during a windstorm, for example.

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