Timeline for Previous owner didn't get permits for remodel, am I now liable?
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| Mar 17, 2016 at 22:58 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | You can't take satellite images of a kitchen. How would they prove the kitchen was remodelled? Cite one news story of somebody who was forced to tear out their kitchen in "California". | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 22:54 | comment | added | jgrant | Here in CA they will make you remove unpermitted work, or get it permitted and inspected, even if it means tearing your kitchen apart. But they catch you. Anonymous tips happen regularly. I've heard of them using satellite images to additions were made in time frames when no permits were issued. | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 20:02 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Some jurisdictions do. I've heard of people moving from urban CA to rural TX, going to pull permits for a school building and being shocked that they didn't need any. | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 3:18 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | Cease and desist what? A residential house does not require an "occupancy permit" unless it is a new construction. | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 3:07 | comment | added | Fiasco Labs | In our jurisdiction, they merely issue a cease and desist order and deny occupancy for the unpermitted work. You then need a permit for demo. Makes for some pretty ugly failed addition remains. They don't demand you tear it down, so it gets left as an example to everyone as to what happens if you don't get a permit. LOL | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 22:00 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | Somehow I don't envision town inspectors getting a court order to destroy the OP's kitchen. | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 21:55 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | In my jurisdiction their ultimate 'nuke' is to make you tear out the additions, from there, they negotiate. I saw them use that nuke on an illegal garage conversion (government intervened after their dumb tenant threatened to tow people who blocked the "driveway"; code requires the driveway and curb cut be removed) and a 2-unit Victorian where the seller was forced to undo partitioning into 4 units, as he couldn't prove it'd been a 4-unit prior to 1977 when some law passed. | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 20:29 | history | answered | Tyler Durden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |