good point.
regarding a house under construction, when it’s that close to completion, they generally have all the appliances in the house, which are expensive. So, there’s lots to steal from a house under construction.
Um, no. The appliances never go in until there are locks on the doors and windows. In most cases, the roofing, siding and trim are on shortly after the framing inspection. The house inside, for all you know, may be nothing but framing with maybe the rough-ins.
As far as wandering in to a house under construction, we used to put up with it all the time when the neighbors curiosity would get the best of them. And the contracted buyers were also a problem when they would come in at night and try to run wires for electronics, security systems, etc... before the sheetrock goes up. We have even had buyers coming in at night with tape measures to make sure we weren’t “getting away with anything” and video recorders to point out any perceived flaws in construction. Hell, I even had a Indian couple who put a box full of religious crap in a dark corner of the crawl space to “bless” the house as it’s constructed. They were a little upset (to say the least) when they found one of the contractors had taken a dump in their box.
Also, To others observations, I didn’t see anybody fly out of the house like Jesse Owens. Bottom line, he emerged from the house with nothing in his arms or under his shirt and he proceeded on down the road. In this particular case, he did not break any laws and certainly didn’t need to be confronted by armed Billy Badass citizens. Dad should have known better.