Recently, I found the city of code enforcement did bad thing to the housing market and squeeze the citizen unfairly ! I bought a house in Sacramento recently. Before I closed the deal , I called City of Sacramento and asked whether any code violation, answered was NO. At the same time, I checked the listing footage matched the TAX record. So I bought the house. Only 2 weeks after close, code enforcement came and said "my stair's step is too high with 12", it should be 9". I asked how did he know. He said he had been code enforcement for 40 years, "he saw he knew". Because of that I let him in to check, he finally admitted he was wrong because all steps high is 9". Then he said my stair wide is too narrow, only 24', need to be 36". He force me to change it to new code. But the house was biult 1925, before my father was born. How can he force me to change now ? PG&E came and turn on GAS without problem, SMUD came to turn on power without problem either. he said that is our city code. He said my bedroom window was too small and life threaten in case of fire. But the window had been there for many many years if not 86 years. new code was effective just last year. My window is even wider than my neighbor's. If you force me to change now, should all All Sacramento old houses update to new code too ? ( if I change the window later, I will be happy to make it to new code) He said my house was not livable, why ? My tenant can not be more happy with new paint, new hardwood flooring. gas, electricity heater are normal, house are beautiful. So our code enforcement should help citizen and help Sacramento house market, in stead of squeeze the citizen and run down the market and scare the investors and home owners away ! please ! (zhibin_huang@yahoo.com)