[LakeCleElum]

I really hate permits, but ya kinda got to to it. Like Stomach sez, it will really bite you when you sell the house if you don't do it. I'm just finishing building a house and did a lot of the work myself. I just had to pay a $900 permit renewal fee as it had been a year since they were last out. I screamed, yelled and wrote letters, but in the end, I had to pay it....

What's interesting, I have relatives in the building trade in the mid-west. To this day, you need no permit at all to build your own home in many counties in ILL or Missouri; I'm sure many other states as well.....