At 5:11 PM -0500 11/9/00, Bill Stewart wrote:

At 11:09 AM 11/9/00 -0500, David Honig wrote:

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So Tim is right --there are no constraints on his property, unless he wants to improve or sell it.

Or the government needs it for a freeway...

Heh. Having seen Tim's property, at the edge of a fairly high hill, that'd be a pretty entertaining freeway....

More to the point, if Tim wanted to rent his spare bedroom to somebody, there'd be a whole raft of constraints and requirements.

Remember, I was very careful in what I said. I didn't say there were no constraints/encumberments on renting, or selling, or adding on, whatever. I said, quite carefully, that "there is nothing I am required to have in my house." To his credit, David Honig checked with a legalgrub acquaintance of his and confirmed what I said.

I have one friend whose agreement with his housemate was that she wasn't a tenant paying rent, because then he'd be a landlord being regulated and paying income taxes - instead she was a housemate paying her (large) fair share of the utilities, maid service, maintenance, swimming pool cleaning, etc.

I have a house sitting empty in Aptos, over near the coast. I have not rented it out, nor have I ever planned to. The legal hassles are too great. Including, on another subject, renters deciding they won't pay rent and then having social welfare agencies paid for by tax dollars fighting "for the rights of the renter." (Legal Aid Society, for example.) I know a woman here in Santa Cruz County who had some Mexicans renting from her. They trashed the house, didn't pay their rent, and it took her six months of court battles to have the Mexicans finally expelled. And of course she never saw a dime of the rent that was owed to her. The legal fees of her renters were paid for out from public funds. And people wonder why some of us are in favor of rounding up these miscreants and their government associates, holding quick but fair trials, and then executing the whole lot. From what I have seen, several hundred thousand Americans and foreigners living in America need to be tried and then liquidated. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.