[onewhippedpuppy]

Someone clarify this for me, if you do work on your own house without a permit, when does it catch up with you? The only thing I can see is wanting to have your house reassesed to raise your appraised value prior to a sale. If there have been major changes prior to your last appraisal, they'll ask about permits. Otherwise, when will it matter?

Furthermore, short of actually adding square footage, how would they know the difference? The big stuff would be obvious, but how would they know if you remodeled a bathroom? Our property taxes are based on basic information such as finished square footage, bedrooms, basement, etc. Short of big stuff like that, they'd never know the difference.