Robin Speronis, a Florida woman who lives off the grid, is being threatened with losing her home due to her "alternative lifestyle".

Last month, Robin's story was featured on Fox 4 news in Florida. She does not have a refrigerator, oven, running water, or electricity.

Robin explains her decision to live off the grid:

"It was an interest in empowering myself, like we did when we got off the health care system. I wanted to look at every other part of my lifestyle and say, do I need this? Is this of value to me? If it went away tomorrow, what would I do? The more I got into it, the more exciting, the more of an adventure it became. My message was to create, so I created a happy place... a place where I get up, and I'm like this is beautiful."

Most of what Robin 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.

Robin gets her water from rain barrels. She uses a colloidal-silver generator to disinfect the rain water:

"I plug this into my inverter and my battery pack. This light will get brighter and brighter as silver micro particles are suspended in the water. It's natures antibiotic," she explains.

Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), after Robin was featured on the local news, authorities took notice: the day after the feature, Robin was slapped with a notice to vacate her property.

"A code enforcement officer came, knocked on the door then posts a placard that says uninhabitable property, do not enter."

The notice cites international property maintenance code and states the property is unsafe to be lived in. Robin said code enforcement has never been inside her home and would have no idea if her property is safe.

The city code compliance manager told Fox 4 that he tagged the home 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.

Robin said she owns her home free and clear and her taxes are up to date.

"Putting a woman who lives by herself, who is a widow, out on the street without any due process of law is unfathomable. Where is the justice? Why did they choose me...because I was exercising my First Amendment rights of free speech in discussing living off the grid."

Fox 4 reports that there has been an overwhelming show of support for Robin from people who have heard her story:

A local attorney has agreed to take Robin's case for free. The City of Cape Coral says that if she can prove she can sustain herself and her home without electricity or water, both parties may be able to come to a solution. But isn't the burden of proof on the accuser? It seems that the city should have to prove Robin's lifestyle isn't sustainable, not the other way around. Humans lived for thousands of years without modern conveniences like running water and electricity, and Amish families continue to thrive without either.

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Code Enforcement over stepping their authority. A good lawyer should put them in their place.

I have thought of doing the same thing, live off the grid. My home is paid for and taxes are paid. I have solar panels on the roof batteries, and power inverters but summers are just too hot here.

Absolutely amazes me that government itself is even existing any more for all the abuses it exercises in their totalitarian processes on the people they are swore to "serve". Truly, this story shows government at its LOWEST LEVEL.

i agree, she wasn't hurting anyone, just trying to live as she wanted to... but the democrats seem to know better, we need the liberals to tell us how to live...

seems like the city doesn't have a leg to stand on here, i'm interested in seeing how this turns out...

How do you think it's going to turn out with the burden of proof already altered, on a non-existent code violation, in a rigged judicial system, where the city or county will end up with her home and levy fines against her if she loses as well.

People keep voting the same mistakes, ignoring "real" news, can't tell you anything about the Bill of Rights or Constitution, but they can name every entrant on "The Voice", the players on the sports teams, movie stars and singers, what their neighbors are doing wrong, and who our enemies are.

But were not dumbed down....... and we're free

Oh.... and the police who enforce these atrocities need more guns and tanks to protect us, but not law abiding citizens....

Sadly,homes not connected and paying for city water and sewer can be condemned.

My neighbors can suffer the same. They don't have any their own utilities. I sell them power and water. The city has no idea they are getting sewage and trash service for free.

I would say this would be an interesting case for the not so supreme court, but after that BS obozocare decision those idiots would side with the government and give them authority to force us to buy electricity at the very least.

unless there is something that is creating a danger to the neighborhood there should not be any action to be taken by the city
but with things the way they are now-a-days the govt agencies over step their powers regularly