Lake County IL nonbuilding code complaint recreational cottages sold as houses
Did you notice...
forced to absorb from Lake County IL is its population of structures
built largely in the early 1900s for use as summer cottages on its
lakes and recreational areas, for well off from Chicago.
Those structures were built only as temporary structures for use as
summer cottages. Most originally did not have heat or air
conditioning as a result and as a result of being built in the 1920s.
The spacing of joists and studs is much much wider than what is legal
to use currently.
The wiring tends to be cloth wrapped. The structures originally did
not have phones. The structures originally did not have insulation,
and the depth for insulation of the roofs is marginally compliant.
The plumbing and gas lines are rusting out.
The foundations tend to be pier foundations, currently also normally
used only in the old Soviet Union and in old lighthouses on major
waterways. As such, they shift all the time, and so do the
structures.
The other noncompliant aspects of the structures sold fraudelently to
people from out of the area as as far as the sellers can conceal.
Which is an issue to be aware of.
Lake County IL and the State of Illinois do not force disclosure of
that state of those structures in the sales and inspections
documents. The buyers are not forcibly notified they are purchasing a
structure that has been made to look like a normal house from the
vinyl siding etc, that is covering up something that if disclosed,
everybody would walk away from and refuse.
Drywall on the inside has the same purpose. Buyers are not able to
look inside the wall spaces to see the cloth wrapped wiring, the
leaking plumbing, the locally maintained and destroyed sewers and
furnaces etc.
Buyers from the City of Chicago to the list of individuals victimized
have none of the consumer protections we are lead to believe are
provided to the public, in what appears to be a locally driven
political agenda to use the rest of us for "Robin Hood" robbing "the
rich" "to give to the poor".
Except the rich in America don't buy those structures. Ordinary
people who cannot possibly live through what is going to happen to
them in order to cover up for "locals".
And areas and people who attack ordinary for the rest of us about what
they did to themselves embezzling the local school district, diverting
government grants to family members, fraudelently issuing inspections
on structures the locals and even the BBB in Chicago allow getting
out of stating to not have actually inspected to the Chicago Better
Business Bureau if the inspector offers to perform all the necessary
repairs for full pay as a "reasonable remedy" in another near kickback
scheme, the local governments obstruct lawsuits and retaliate, public
services are removed, etc etc.
And local schemes as always created by the complete participation of
the local political relationships in corrupting the law to make it
possible for their relationships to do so, result in long lists of
innocent people, including vulnerable poor from Cabrini Green moved
into a social problem not much different from what they left in
Chicago to build a better life, etc, operate a successful scheme that
the only thing any buyer can do is to be informed that Lake County IL
and the State of Illinois have created the ability to pass those
things off fraudelently to home buyers who in practice have absolutely
no consumer protections from the sale of anything with fake
inspections, nondisclosures of the actual nature of the structure,
etc.
We should demand damages, forced purchase of the structures from the
victims, and destruction of housing that was never intended for
residential use.
Replacement with building code compliant low cost structures is
something individuals with limited means have been doing for many
years.
I think the responsible government officials party to these schemes
can afford to do so.