DIYbanter - View Single Post - Any risk in buying a house with finished basement without permit -Please advise

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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:33:13 -0500, Brad wrote:

Egress is a bunch of crap. Sure, it's a safety issue if you're going to
use the room as a basement, but you either take it as an accepted risk or
you don't live in the room.

Then you won't buy the property!

I lived in a basement with no egress for many
years growing up at a time when more than 3/4 of the basements in my
neighborhood were finished with nothing but a set of stairs going to the
main floor and many of those had kids living in them.

Gosh,you should thank the gods that you are alive today and didn't get
roasted in a fire that trapped you in your cellar!

Just because we are
an overly regulatory society does not mean that you have to have a
friggin' big window in a basement to use it as a bedroom.

Not a ****in' big window, just one that is adequate for a person to
use to escape in necessary! (Call a ****ing spade a spade for the gods
sake - what are you trying to prove with your ****ing use of the word
"friggin'" ? (You ain't fooling anyone!)

Hi,
Some has bird's brain. Common sense is very rare lately.
Tony