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Don't minimum lot size regulations curtail the rights of individuals to buy and sell property in increments of their mutual choosing?
Yes, as do closing requirements, and building codes, but property rights are not absolute. Municipalities with state grants of authority can zone and permit and storm water control etc., just like individual developers can bind land by covenants and servitudes.
Stop your whining. You did something stupid. Great. Fix it. Get off your duff, change your life. Mistakes are not fatal
You're wasting your breath. He's a non-starter. It's always someone else's fault. He'll never make any progress because he will not accept the truth that he sabotaged his own life opportunities.
Minimum lot sizes are designed to benefit homeowners and to prevent many renters from buying property, thus ensuring that purchasers meet or exceed the financial standards of incumbent homeowners.
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"My" local zoning is the same local zoning under which almost all Americans live - you have to get out into Unashack territory to escape minimum lot size regulations. NOBODY wants the poor to acquire property in THEIR neighborhood, which is why minimum lot sizes are pretty much ubiquitous.
In that context, there really isn't anything the poor can do about it because the middle class can outvote them every time.
Bull... local zoning is your problem. And don't tell me that its all the same. I've lived and worked in 46 states and zoning laws are different in every state, county, and city in this country. Sounds to me like you want to live on a 100x100 lot in the middle of a gated residential community and are mad because someone won't sell it to you when all the rest of the lots are 1 acre or larger.
I know you've been told over and over here, how to help yourself. You've been given excellent advice on buying and selling property, how to clean up your credit, how to better your job possibilities, but each and every time you make excuse after excuse. How bout just once... step up to the plate and DO SOMETHING to help yourself out. Without excuse. Without crying about how someone else is to blame for your lot in life. For once... admit that you made some mistakes and set out to FIX it. There's no shame in that. The shame comes in continually blaming others.
You're wasting your breath. He's a non-starter. It's always someone else's fault. He'll never make any progress because he will not accept the truth that he sabotaged his own life opportunities.
??? Not getting financial aid was my fault? Not being able to afford law school was my fault?
Should have been the first clue that you made a bad decision on your field of study choice. If finding a way to fund your education mattered, you did not have the luxury of mindlessly pursuing a degree in a field in which there's little demand.
And I didn't say anything about unpaid internships. I specifically posted about PAID internships. And those are, in fact, how MANY students fund their college educations. Believe it or not, you weren't/aren't the only student on the face of the earth who struggles with how to pay for their college education. But, again, that requires choosing your field of study wisely. Engineering students are in demand for PAID internships. Poli Sci or "pre-law" students, not so much...
You made your own bed, and are now complaining about having had to lie in it.
Just to be fair: There's plenty of demand for lawyers. Plenty of money to be made to be one.
The issue is that top tier schools are rather hard to get into, and the cost is astronomical - the accreditation organization is run by the legal profession, who deliberately makes the cost of law school astronomical, to limit the entry of lawyers and limit the enrollment in law school - the idea is to keep the demand high and prices by limiting supply of lawyers.
That being said, there's several night schools and part time law schools in cheaper places to live, like Missouri and Kentucky, Portland OR - and others. You don't have prestigious university's degree when you pass the bar, but damn, if you get there, you get there. If what you want is to be a lawyer, get there however and whatever way you can.
Minimum lot sizes are designed to benefit homeowners and to prevent many renters from buying property, thus ensuring that purchasers meet or exceed the financial standards of incumbent homeowners.
A lot of those minimum lot sizes have absolutely nothing with zoning or government at all and everything to do with covenants and sevitudes which are in essence private contracts created and entered into with the initial development and sales of the neighborhood. Your basically complaining about private individuals and business privately contracting to establish private residential standards.
??? Not getting financial aid was my fault? Not being able to afford law school was my fault?
It is.
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