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Originally Posted by VINMAN
I run into this a lot with customers. You'll have to file permits for whatever was built without one. Then have to file for a variance with land use. That's the toughest part.
Hopefully whatever was built is up to code. Footing size and depth has to be checked. Every town I deal with here in Jersey is different. Also depends on the individual inspector. Some are easy, some are nightmares.
That's the bad thing about doing stuff without permits. It can come back to bite you in the ass big time. I've had to do too many tear downs and rebuilds because of it. I recently had one customer lose the sale of their house over a stupid little 12x12 ground level deck that didn't have a permit. Total BS, but them's the rules!
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The one thing I made sure of personally was to see the footings properly done. I trusted the GCs to do the permits, that's my bad. But I'm still very worried about being forced into a teardown, that'd be a financial disaster.