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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The prior owners of our house added a bathroom without a permit. It was a hiccup when we went to buy it; we couldn't close without getting it permitted. [/quote]

There has to be more to this story. I have bought and sold 8 homes over the years, from DC, to MD, to CA, to CO - never has there been an issue closing due to "unpermitted work". I'm willing to bet the entire value of my current home that one if not more of my 8 homes (especially the home in CCDC and CCMD) has had some unpermitted work completed.  That is why you have an inspection contingency - to make sure that everything in the home is to code before you go into Pending status. Again, there has to be more to this story that PP is not telling us. [/quote]

PP here. There really isn't much to the story. The prior owners added a bathroom to the basement. It wasn't permitted. This came up during the inspection (it's an obvious thing -- paperwork from the county says 3 bathrooms, and the house has 4). We couldn't get insurance without the permit, and couldn't get a mortgage without insurance -- so we couldn't close unless the prior owners got a retroactive permit. The county had to come out and inspect. The sellers paid for it. It wasn't a a huge deal. But it would have been cheaper and far less hassle for them to just get the permit in the first place. [/quote]

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