I've been told that anytime you have a contractor do work for you that
you should insist that they pull the permits. State law here (and
apparently in a lot of other states) affords you some level of
protection in that case as they are then legally obligated to complete
the project to code.
~Paul
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:20 PM, Randall Young wrote:
>
> Your general should be able to do all this. You can, if you want,
> write the
> permit approval into your offer to buy the house. (Of course, the
> seller
> may decide they don't want to take the risk and sell to someone else,
> so
> this isn't always the best idea.)
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