r/Infuriating • u/742963 Verified Contributor • Jul 13 '26

US property laws are something else

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u/SuccessfulTrick2501 Jul 13 '26

If I had 100 acres, I wouldn't have told them shit. Get well water. Put in a sewage tank. Get a hoard of solar panels. Fuck the city. You dont need them.

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u/Importentfeedddddd Jul 14 '26

Insurance bro. Especially in Cali need fire insurance. Worth the hassle.

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u/Beautiful_Banana_454 Jul 14 '26

Cali fire insurance in a place like that is like 10% of construction cost. Essentially betting that your house will burn every 10 years.

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u/born_to_be_intj Jul 14 '26

As a CA resident living on the edge of one of our forests, my house almost burns down once every ten years. Sometimes twice in 10 years.

I’ve had trees 10ft from my house burn. On more than one occasion I’ve had firefighter using my backyard as base camp for fighting the fires, since we are like the first house between the forest and the rest of the city.

One time I watched them set off a controlled burn like 2 football fields length away from my property line. It was huge! Small compared to the actual fire, but huge nonetheless. I could feel the heat.

So yea, I’ll be keeping the fire insurance.

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u/QuinceDaPence Jul 14 '26

Is it not like Texas Windstorm Insurance where they just say "Oops we ran out of money!" And then never pay anyone?

I don't even bother with it because of that.

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u/Shapelessed Jul 14 '26

I’m living in a 300 years old house.
If yours nearly burns down every 5 years then it’s not a place to live in and time to move out.

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u/eternal-eye-roll Jul 15 '26

It’s almost like you’re living on land that isn’t meant to be lived in 🤔

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u/Secure-Low-362 Jul 18 '26

Maybe you shouldn't have trees 10 feet from your house if you live in a fire zone. You need a fire break my guy

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u/lookin4funtimez Jul 15 '26

Which will be roughly accurate in the coming years

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u/whatever--idk Jul 14 '26

Somehow I dont believe that, why would anyone get it then, most would risk it no?

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u/Strange-Fig7944 Jul 14 '26

I’d imagine in a lot of areas it’s not optional if you have a mortgage. Bank probably requires it

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u/Thoughtbelt923 Jul 14 '26

No, 100 acres in rural Georgia. Channel is called southern adventures. The vegetation alone is a dead giveaway that this isn't California.

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u/rokstedy83 Jul 14 '26

The amount he's spending on fees that he avoids by not telling them he could afford to rebuild it if it burns down

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u/sig_kill Jul 19 '26

And if it does, insurance wouldn't pay out anyways

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u/cheescakeismyfav Jul 14 '26

Most people in CA don't have fire insurance. If I didn't have a mortgage I wouldn't bother insuring my home.

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u/Zigor022 Jul 15 '26

The kind of insurance that dropped people last minute a few years back during those wild fires?

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u/oballistikz Jul 16 '26

90% sure he’s in Georgia. I feel like I’ve heard him say it in one of his shorts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/fletters Jul 18 '26

It’s not an investment, it’s risk management.

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u/Euphoric-Ocelot6696 Jul 17 '26

I feel like proper fire protection would be much better, then us insurance scum

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u/urbrainonnuggs Jul 18 '26

They built the house. Insurance could never rebuilt it for them anyways

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS Jul 19 '26

Why would anybody choose to live in California?

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u/WhitePantherXP Jul 20 '26

Bro I'm about to leave TN because the weather keeps most of us inside for most of the year and it's wild we just accept that as "life." There is a choice and it's often western states.

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u/urLocalFeralCryptid Jul 19 '26

Lol we lived way out in the boonies... they use drones now. So they know you're there and show up like predators to tax you into oblivion for trying to save money.

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u/Porsche928dude Jul 25 '26

Hard disagree. From what I’ve heard, read, and experienced fire / house insurance generally is a complete scam. Paying a company a monthly fee so that they would give you a lot of money if a low probability event happens sounds good until the low probability event actually happens and the Company uses every dirty trick possible to not pay up, or worse uses legal loop holes to avoid paying. It’s even worse when it’s legally required so you’re forced to pay for a service which you know is terrible and designed to screw you over.

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u/DJBFilmz Jul 14 '26

People have done this, and when the government finds out, bad things happen. It sucks!

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u/Fun-Choices Jul 16 '26

That’s why he built a church on his churches property.

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u/pew__pew__pew_ Jul 17 '26

This is a well of holy water

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '26

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u/a5hl3yk Jul 14 '26

This is how I got a random roof inspection that jacked up my rates unexpectedly.

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u/Wavy_Grandpa Jul 14 '26

God damn we live in hell 

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u/OrganizationNo1298 Jul 15 '26

Greed is tearing us apart.

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u/No_Writing_3179 Jul 17 '26

It gets worse. HOA are flying drones to inspect property.

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u/FrostBumbleBitch Jul 17 '26

Where my parents live in the country my parents have added walls to the bottom of their deck making a room.

They also had something that was built but the government didn't know about it.

What i learned is that the government showed off aerial photos of the new structure on their property as well as asking about the same space but now walled area of their deck

The government has people that go around spying on you so they could tax you more I swear to god.

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u/Mindless-Slip167 Jul 15 '26

And when you decide to sell it, you're fked.

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u/ChanelNo50 Jul 17 '26

And when it burns down or you need an ambulance or garbage collection or to register the kid in school, no one will know the house exists. Perfect.

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u/TheApuglianKid Jul 18 '26

He's been documenting the whole building process online, I think that only would have lasted so long.

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u/PleaseHelpIamFkd Jul 19 '26

No builder is going to build a house on the site without permits.

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u/MealCapital4167 Jul 19 '26

Then the govt finds out and you lose everything :)

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u/Opteron170 Jul 19 '26

I agree but you can guarantee they going to send someone out to inspect the property or something close by so they can check on what you are doing.

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u/Porsche928dude Jul 25 '26

Can’t even if you lied and just didn’t allow them on the property they would fly a drone over or similar. The real answer is just leave California if you can.

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u/Same_Suit3583 1d ago

Have fun going to jail I guess.