If you are interested in property battles with the government and constitutional issues surrounding takings, I just published an article about a recent California case involving the Coastal Commission: California Court of Appeal Holds that Required Coastal Easement Dedication is an Unconstitutional Taking - See more at: http://www.businessjustice.com/california-court-of...

Placement of Lien for Utility ServiceNotwithstanding any terms of a contract to the contrary, the placement of a lien for the reasonable value of improvements to residential real estate for purposes of providing utility service to the property shall not constitute a default under the terms of an executory contract for the purchase of the real property.§ 5.068.

I wrote a lengthy legal opinion on this topic recently--digging through the FTB's statements is not how I recommend anyone sane spend a Saturday night--that required fairly extensive research into what constitutes "doing business" in California. 

In fact, I would say there is a strong possibility, but if the will they dip to the levels that would constitute a major crash? 

Just to point out the bigger picture: there is nothing remotely constitutional that would allow any government in this country to forbid someone from allowing someone else to stay on their own property in exchange for money.

I believe that in Michigan, this may constitute an unwritten (month-to-month) lease (?)

If you put RE into your retirement account and THEN change your mind, I believe taking it out would constitute a distribution (taxable).

10th amendment to the Constitution.

Hate to burst your bubble, but real Conservatives fight to uphold Constitutional Rights, even for those we might not like or agree with...I'm clearly more Conservative than you...We'll have them calling a tax cut plan an economic stimulus before long.)I guess I should be more like a real Republican and vote to spend $700B on bailing out the banks...Of course, if you watch Fox News, there is a 62% chance that you wouldn't know which President I was referring to...

I will not, however, buy where I see bars on windows, lots of chain link fence and graffiti, etc.Based on my research of CS, it sounds like you generally want to avoid the southeast area of town (roughly, south of Constitution and east of Union).