dpb wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:

In article ,
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:

"Mike Paulsen" wrote in message

Ask your insurance agent what happens if you have a loss which is
somehow related to work done which should have had a permit, but
didn't.

When selling a house the purchase agreement may have an area where
the seller must specify any work which was done without a permit.
What now?

I don't know of anyone that ever ran into those situations. Have you?


In the market for a rental now and I've walked away from several that
had "bonus rooms" that didn't look permitted. I don't generally live
in fear of liability issues, but I wouldn't take that one on.
Non-permitted "improvements" can decrease, rather than increase, the
value of a home.


That isn't same as seller-declared unpermitted work, though, if read
literally, anyway.

Any shoddy workmanship can be a detriment of course.

Did you actually run into a situation where it was required to and was
be disclosed on the jurisdiction's disclosure forms to have been done
w/o permits?

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Hmmm,
Permit has nothing to do with quality of work. Permitted work means that
it met minimum requirement per code. I never built anything based on
minimum requirement.