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Oh get off your high horse about "real conservatives" you wouldn't know a real conservative it it bit you on the butt.

Your ignorance of regulation and law is astounding in its depth. If you think an apartment complex is legally the same as a single family home, then there is nothing more to be said. Rentals are business assets, while they may be a "home" to the renter, they are not legislatively the same when it comes to their upkeep, construction, maintenance or safety.

Drive around, please, and point out the fire escapes on the new single family multi level homes in the subdivisions... Show me the sprinkler systems in the 1500 sq ft ranches. Your right to OWN property is not restricted by regulations that are required for certain uses of the property. You can own something all day long.. the minute you rent it though, you have to meet the requirements for that. And they are different than simply owning it. You don't have to like it, but that's reality.

A rental unit, is just that, a RENTAL UNIT. In order for me to be able to RENT it to someone it must meet the requirements to do so. You have every right to own it, but when you want to rent, you enter a business and its a business that is regulated... grow up and deal with it. While you live there it is your HOME, it is not your property, and while it belongs to an owner, you will find out if you do some research that most of them (particularly large apartment complexes) are owned by CORPORATIONS, which guess what, don't even have the same concept of constitutional unregulated use of private property... so your little house of cards falls again.

Hell even if you build a single family house it must meet building standards, and pass an inspection to receive its occupancy permit. I know you long for the days when a man wondered off in the woods, pissed on a tree, declared the land his and built him a cabin... but that's not the way of the world, no matter how much you may pine for it to be.