in the first place.


It just seems very interesting...

If it's that bad then it sounds like she or her son (more likely) scammed the mortgage company into a reverse mortgage company when the house is about to fall down.

This is the problem with code compliance. I spent my entire weekend ripping out cloth covered wire from a house I just built and putting in NM wire. It's amazing they let you "grandfather" the code requirement because that stuff is incredibly dangerous.

Seems to be a real lack of imagination breaking out all over the place with this situation.

or something, but HELLO!!!!???? Seems to me that when you're 101, you can live where ever you DAMN WELL PLEASE! OK, so the house isn't up to code and yes it would be lovely if habitat for humanity or some such organization would fix up the place for her, but kicking her out sure as hell isn't going to EXTEND her life any! Ms Bigmack

Or a mail carrier falls through the deck and breaks both of his legs. The codes are there for a reason.

If she lived there for 60 years, there are things like requirements to have wall outlets no more than a certain number of feet apart that would require rewiring the place.

This was the case in a late '40s home in NW Detroit that a relative owned.

These are usually sold at a significant discount to renovaters who upgrade them to code before selling them to a new occupant.

Fairly scary the things you find that they used to do.