Rather than focus on that fact, we probably should be looking at the root and underlying cause of why such an order was put in place to begin with.

You can decide to open up the country and go cram yourself into an arena with 15K other screaming fans rooting for this or that team that you're not genetically-superior enough to have ever had a shot of joining.

Before becoming shorthand for poor and colored areas, “ghetto” has it’s roots describing the neighborhoods to which Jewish Europeans were confined.

Visit and see my roots in Spain.

If you do this sort of grass-roots progression you get to know people, people get to know you and this is incredibly valuable with investing especially if you're known to have a good reputation.

Good luck Charleszett, I'm rooting for you!!!

If it's roots, a pipe issue, or anything else that's on my end I will pay the bill. 

Maximizing profit is exactly what the Realtors, lenders and investors/speculators have done in a rampant fashion, and back to the original question posed by the OP- thats the root of the problem you speak of.

I live and work in the Boston metro area, and have set up investing roots (and team members) in the Twin Cities to help manage my out of state investments. 

The few that don't get rooted out PDQ.Imagine how much your costs would go down and how much savings you could pass on to your customer without all the ridiculous fees and permits in the Pacific Northwest.I just watched "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles" episode where a guy bought a lot on a bluff overlooking the ocean (far above the sea) to build a house for his kids to grow up in. 15 years later he was selling it never having moved in.