Posted on 02/16/2026 12:08:00 PM PST by Twotone
San Francisco just dropped a $300,000 sprinkler mandate on 9,800 condo owners — and that’s just the beginning. California homeowners are now facing a stack of unfunded mandates that could cost half a million dollars per property. No vote. No public funding. No way out.
In this video I expose how a failed San Francisco politician got a $300,000 per unit fire sprinkler retrofit mandate passed after it was defeated TWICE — by burying it in a routine fire code update. I reveal why the sprinkler fitters union is blocking repeal, how the national plumbers union is pushing this mandate to every major city in America, and why buildings made of concrete are being forced to install sprinkler systems in materials that don’t burn.
Then I connect it to the BIGGER story nobody’s talking about — California’s shadow tax system. Sprinkler mandates. Gas appliance bans starting 2027. Seismic retrofits. Electrification mandates. Balcony repairs. Point-of-sale code compliance. Each one sounds reasonable alone. Stack them on the same homeowner and it’s financial destruction.
California didn’t raise your taxes. They just made it so expensive to own your home that you have to sell it to someone who can afford the mandates. And that someone is not you.
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⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 — How California takes your home without raising taxes 1:00 — The $300,000 sprinkler mandate nobody saw coming 3:00 — Defeated twice — then buried in the fire code 5:00 — The failed politician behind it all 6:00 — The union money blocking repeal 8:00 — Concrete doesn’t burn — the engineering insanity 9:30 — The shadow tax: sprinklers + gas ban + seismic + electrification 11:30 — This is going national — your city is next 13:00 — What you can do right now
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Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
But they just won’t send the water for the sprinklers.
This happened in some towns in Delaware.
From the same people who can’t keep water in hydrants during a forest fire.
Whatever it takes to get long-term Proposition 13 home-owners out.
One reason I have been toying with either a tiny house or a 5th RV wheel for my diesel truck and never stay in one place too long if I don’t find a place I like at the end of a dirt road.
I have decided after watching house prices and property taxes get unrealistic, ownership is not a viable path in an urban area or an area where a town can annex to later. They will rape you. It is a pipedream, you never own your house and/or property, ever.
This sounds like a way to tank property values so some of Gavin’s buddies can buy it up cheaply.
An onerous regulation can be considered a “taking” under the 5th Amendment. Unless the Gov’t provides compensation to comply it isn’t constitutional.
They really want california to be a ghost town don’t they?
“It is a pipedream, you never own your house and/or property, ever.”
I own my home.
Moving out of CA, my family’s home for almost 150 years, in 2028
I guess anyone who owns a home in California is wealthy.
They need to secede every city east of the beaches! Redraw California and place the farm valleys and east to Nevada and Arizona. Leave the liberal cities to carry the debt!
Unions both public and private love to work with Dims to enrich themselves and screw everyone else.
ADU Exemption: Per 2017 law (SB-1069), detached Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) under 1,200 sq. ft. are generally exempt if the primary residence does not have them.
You win the thread!!
Sounds like something NY would do ... with the NYC condos.
Thank you. I’m taking my bow.
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