Widow faces eviction for 'living off the grid'
'Where is the justice? Why did they choose me'
December 17, 2013
by Felicia Dionisio

Imagine making the choice to live without modern amenities, such as running water and electricity.

Widow Robin Speronis of Cape Coral, Fla., is among the growing number of Americans who happily embrace this “alternative lifestyle” known as “living off the grid.”

Robin doesn’t have a refrigerator, oven, running water or electricity at her modest home.

Most of what she owns was free, donated or bought for next to nothing.

She cooks on a propane camping stove, and her electronics run on solar-charged batteries.

And when Robin needs water, she collects it in rain barrels and uses a colloidal-silver generator to disinfect it.

“My message was to create, so I created a happy place … a place where I get up, and I’m like this is beautiful,” she told WFTX-TV in Fort Myers, Fla.

Unfortunately for Robin, her decision to talk to a local TV station about off-the-grid living put her on the radar of the city of Cape Coral.

The very next day, authorities tacked a notice to vacate the property on her door, despite the fact she owns her home free and clear and is up-to-date on her taxes.

“A code-enforcement officer came, knocked on the door then posts a placard that says uninhabitable property, do not enter,” she told the TV station in a later interview.

The city’s code-compliance manager told the station the home was tagged because it doesn’t have running water or electricity – but neither is mentioned as a requirement in the code cited by the city on the notice.

“Sounds like the city feels that this is an unsanitary situation,” said WFTX reporter Lisa Fernandez.

“How would they know?” Speronis asked. “They have never been inside.”
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