"Dan" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:39:11 -0700, G Henslee

wrote:

Fred wrote:
I have a building in San Francisco where I had a
licensed contractor did
some major work. A permit was pulled, contractor
did the work, I was shown a
final inspection (so I thought) from this
contractor so final payment was
released. Now many years gone by and now trying to
sell the property, my
real estate agent requested a (CCR?) report and to
my dismay the San
Francisco building department stated no final
permit was issued for this
work. Permit expired long ago, now what?



Everyone's an expert here, including me so you're
going to be advised to
do everything but blow up the building. Then again
someone may suggest
that as well. But, it's really very simple what you
need to do,
allthough the process may not be so simple.

First attempt to make contact with the contractor and
regardless of
whether he tells you to pack sand or not, next thing
is for you to go
the building department and tell them what's
happened. They will no
doubt require you to take out another permit.
Depending upon the scope
of the work that was performed as well as their
inspection records for
the job they may have additional req's as well. They
may or may not have
original drawings and specs.

You may end up suing the former contractor, you may
not, but you have
to start at the building dept. Noa t in usenet.

I'm a building official and in a case like yours I'd
probably come
out and do a final inspection. In the absence of
gross violations,
I'd issue the final. I have better things to do than
to **** off
citizens that are trying to do the right thing.

Dan

Oh, that's good advice: What YOU would do has nothing
to do with what the OP needs to do next. That's a
non-answer. If you're a "building official", what's
your title? Sounds like you were scrounging for a buzz
word there.
I'm also a "building official" but it's nothing to
do with the OPs area of questioning.