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Congress is planning to make your home unsalable
email | 10/22.2009 | By Craig J. Cantoni

Posted on 10/22/2009 11:29:02 AM PDT by hsmomx3

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To: NRA2BFree

61 posted on 10/22/2009 1:05:39 PM PDT by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: sr4402
The Bill basically says you have to have an OK by a Green inspector before you can sell the house.

I wonder if the job of Green Inspector qualifies for hazardous duty pay...

62 posted on 10/22/2009 1:12:27 PM PDT by aragorn (We do indeed live in interesting times. NRA, GOA, SAF, CCRKBA. FUBO.)
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To: jerri
With the additional two inches in depth, MORE insulation will be used in the belief that the heating and cooling requirements will be reduced.

Will cement block homes be outlawed because they usually don't have any insulation in them, or will the government force people to inject a ‘structured foam’ or other insulation into the hollow spaces in the blocks?

We just bought a new house last year here in Florida and we did order the structured foam insulation as an option within the cement blocks.

We felt that it would help a little in cooling as well as keeping insects and other vermin out of the walls. The vendor claims that it reduces noise from entering from outside as well.

63 posted on 10/22/2009 1:14:29 PM PDT by dglang
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To: growlingrizzlybear

ping


64 posted on 10/22/2009 1:16:16 PM PDT by SnarlinCubBear (Sarcasma - Comforting relief from the use of irony, mocking and conveying contempt)
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To: Oldexpat
every new house or remodel must be framed in 2x6’s instead of 2x4’s.

What if you want to use steel as a frame? Will this not be allowed?

65 posted on 10/22/2009 1:20:38 PM PDT by giotto
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To: Oldexpat

To my mind “greener” isn’t the goal, or at least if it is whomever in the State Gov of ours here in California has abused the word to draw support for the additional cost of 2X6 lumber.

Illogic says to me it would be some Leftist imagining towards Earthquake safety to have the “stronger” lumber in construction, as I can’t see any possible way using those 2X6’s would make anything greener, unless it was painted green.

To my mind it would seem the larger lumber would increase the consumption of lumber, thus the cutting down of more trees to the chagrin of the tree huggy-bunch.


66 posted on 10/22/2009 1:43:24 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: mojitojoe

LOL! That is hilarious!


67 posted on 10/22/2009 1:45:30 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (If there is trouble let it be in my life time so I donÂ’t leave it for the kids to clean up!)
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To: Irish Queen

Ah yes! saleable! (That gets a spellcheck!) But it makes more sense. But it’s not in my dictionary (Webster’s)
By the way, spellcheck gets a spellcheck too!


68 posted on 10/22/2009 1:56:32 PM PDT by MondoQueen
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To: Puppage

it comes down to not even being able to “sell it” without proper repairs... “as is” won’t matter to the law...
“unsalable”

teeman


69 posted on 10/22/2009 2:13:58 PM PDT by teeman8r (i liked GWB... really, i did.)
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To: henkster

If they give me a complete tax break for the purchase of *ALL* stated additions to my home (as in I can write off everything)...maybe I’ll think about it.


70 posted on 10/22/2009 2:22:01 PM PDT by madison10
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To: aragorn
The Bill basically says you have to have an OK by a Green inspector before you can sell the house.

I wonder if the job of Green Inspector qualifies for hazardous duty pay...

So maybe a bunch of us should become "green inspectors" or whatever other freedom-defeating bureaucrat they invent. I'm beginning to see that the only way to defeat this crap is to infiltrate it and change it.

71 posted on 10/22/2009 2:25:14 PM PDT by madison10
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To: hsmomx3

Calfornia has been there for years.


72 posted on 10/22/2009 2:32:42 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: hsmomx3

I read about this months ago.

When my dad passes away (82-years old) I stand to inherit his house. It is 40-years old and needs major repair.

With these legal statutes in the pipeline, I think I’ll just tear down the house and sell the lot. It will readily sell as the neigborhood is desirable and the lot will have all utilities at the site. I’m not about to put $250,000 - $300,000 into a property that may not sell for years.

His doctor says my father is in passable health besides Alzheimer disease. So it may be many years yet before I have to deal with the house - hopefully!


73 posted on 10/22/2009 2:40:53 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: Dewey Revoltnow
Gonna be a lot of homes “accidently” burn down.

It is already happening in certain areas of the Mon Valley.

I've got an older home with a lot of poor previously done work done by so-called certified union electricians. I can do better work myself to correct it, but I don't have the union license. So, when it comes time to sell my home, I'll have to bribe an inspector to certify my work which is better quality than most of the idiots with a union card.

74 posted on 10/22/2009 3:02:24 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: MondoQueen
As a person who collects dictionaries and grammar books the word "salable" is considered an acceptable alternate spelling.

My reply to you was simply parroting my search engine's response to the word "salable". Thank you for posting this article.

75 posted on 10/22/2009 3:09:21 PM PDT by Irish Queen (This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through ...)
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To: hsmomx3
Can't sell your house because you can't afford to make the green improvements required to sell it?...

Look for an epidemic of "mysterious" house fires to collect on insurance. Next, the insurance companies will not sell fire insurance.

76 posted on 10/22/2009 3:20:46 PM PDT by Gritty (The Omnipresent Leader has traditionally been a characteristic feature of 3rd World dumps-Mark Steyn)
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To: Dewey Revoltnow

Exactly!!!


77 posted on 10/22/2009 3:31:08 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: r9etb

Craig has been writing for several years and used to have his column in the Scottsdale section of the AZ Republic.


78 posted on 10/22/2009 3:36:47 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Red Badger
It may be the plan for the Gov to take over all housing by which they will
be exempt from their own codes and our landlord will be Waxman and his ilk.
Then they can tell us how to live, and along with health care we will have Zero freedoms left.
I can see entire neighborhoods burning in rebellion to this fiasco.

Typical RAT game, create a crisis then take it over.

79 posted on 10/22/2009 3:37:59 PM PDT by MaxMax (Obama can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: chris_bdba

Thanks


80 posted on 10/22/2009 4:42:25 PM PDT by jerri (Is it over yet?)
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