I will however mention one EPA ruling that came in effect only a year or two ago. All renovation contractors working on pre 70’s homes need to wear the equivalent of hazmat coverings and take other steps to guard against possible lead contamination from paint; and they need to take a course, at their expense of several thousand dollars, and renew periodically, and there are possible fines up the wazzoo for violators.

Utterly ridiculous. Lead paint is only dangerous to infants who eat it, in unrenovated homes. I doubt they could document a single case of lead poisoning in a renovator, or home owner after or during a completed renovation.

Just what we need in a housing depression.//