did you read the comments yesterday about the traffic-ticket guy ? top comment was someone who was ticketed after he sold the car and SFO absolutely would not accept his indisputable proof of innocence. If SFO can't even apply a rule fairly with a $200 penalty, what do you think would happen if they were entrusted with meting out $7500/day penalties?
I also have huge issues with the government deciding what you can do with your property after you've bought and paid for it. If they can change the terms of your contract, worth 6 and 7 figures, that not only erodes faith in the real estate market but it effectively means you never own it in the first place (inb4 the tax-protester argument of "you never owned it anyway because tax". yes I know that).
It's only your property in so far as the government/society surrounding you says it is, unless you plan on defending it yourself, but that didn't work out so well for a certain group in Waco, TX.
I'd be for 99-year or lifetime leases. Just so that you can own your property for as long as you're alive, but not long enough to establish mini-dynasties where the only people who can own property are extremely wealthy (family becomes wealthy because they inherited a house and have no mortgage, supply of houses goes down, prices go up, gradually the only people who own them are those who inherited them).
I also have huge issues with the government deciding what you can do with your property after you've bought and paid for it. If they can change the terms of your contract, worth 6 and 7 figures, that not only erodes faith in the real estate market but it effectively means you never own it in the first place (inb4 the tax-protester argument of "you never owned it anyway because tax". yes I know that).