[Jims5543]

I moved one county south and into another city.

Basically the City I had my office in lost 10 jobs chasing me out. That might seem funny to you but, with the way the economy in that town is heading every job will count.

It gave me great pleasure to rent that house out for the last year to,.... hmmm. lets say a good 'ol country boy. He had a mobile home on the property dead cars in the front yard, a real eye sore. It made me happy because when I had my business there the place look perfect.

We were also the perfect neighbor, we left at 5 o'clock and were never around on the weekend. The tenant would sit in the driveway and drink till 2 in the morning, shoot off fireworks whenever he felt like it, and played with one of those train horns whenever he felt like it.

The city was really looking out for the residents best interests here.

To answer you question, the building had multiple projects going at once, Electrical was inspected and the fire marshal came out and inspected it as well.

A permit was not needed for the walls because they do not go past the drop cieling and technically they are partial walls and are exempt from needing a permit/inspection.

The mess with the Home/Office was an act of desperation. There were no offices to be had in Oct-Dec 2004 for a resonable amount of money if at all.

I decided to buy this house because it is on a 4 lane road across from a Polish / American club, very commercial in the area. I had not researched it yet but figured I could get a resdential/ Professional license to operate there. Most cities have them, not this one.

Also, 50% of my competitors work from their homes, illegally and the city turns a blind eye to it. There is no way to operate a Land Surveying business out of your home and not have emplyees report to work or clients come buy to pick up or drop off work. Both are violations and the reasons I got in trouble, mainly employees in the house. Yet 10+ Surveying companies in Port St. Lucie are operating illegally. (we had a very good reason to do this) The owner was smarter than me, he had the Occ. License registered to his dads home address, so when they inspect, everything is cool.

My honesty kicked my own butt.