Pop, your comments are very helpful and I will check out the permit
issue and take come pictures of the damage. I feel so stupid for not
knowing. I just bought the house and one of the engineeing inspectors
looked at the foundation and said the piers should be replaced and I
signed the inspection sheet that I guess doubled as a bid. He never
mentioned permits. I will look into it. Hopefully it just looks worse
than it is and since its not foundational, maybe I can just rip them
out and put new ones in. It could just be that he "straightened out my
house" and they only cracked because they were put back in place. I
do feel a ton better than I did before I posted this thread so thanks
for calming me down. Google groups is so cool!