Reply #54: There is a difference between owning a home and driving a car.

[uppityperson]

It is good to look at issues like this, but there is a difference between the 2 things, and some similarities.

Similarities is that there are legal guidelines with both.

Car driving: you are supposed to get a drivers license which entails (usually) paying money and taking a test. If you get break traffic laws, there are consquences. Traffic laws are in place to try and keep as many people safe as possible since autos are big killing machines.

Home: there are building codes, zoning regulations and taxes as part of house building/ownership. They are to try and keep people safe by building safely, to bunch types of places together (business, residential, etc.) (some say to keep property values up or down), and taxes to help pay for things that each of us as individuals cannot afford individually (schools, libraries, fire/police, roads, etc).

If you build and do not follow building codes, which are stricter some places, and are caught, the county inspectors can make you stop building and deny you the ability to live (legally) in your structure.

One law that bothers me is the one about getting caught with drugs and having your house, boat, car, seized. I am not sure if that is still a law as I know a few yrs back there was a bunch of whoohaw about it.