I once employed a really fine contractor who completely forgot about the certificate of occupancy. A year after the work was completed, I received a notice from the municipality that I might be fined if I used the tub in the master bath without one.
The permit process sounds like a pain, but it is necessary. The majority of building officials I’ve dealt with over the years behaved like professionals, but I’ve heard some nightmarish stories about others.
A colleague was helping her elderly parents build a new house behind their old one on property her father had owned for 50 years. Before the inspector would sign off on the project so that the parent could take their possessions out of storage and move in, he wanted some trees he said were in the wrong place replanted.
It was a matter better handled by Mother Nature. The saplings to which he was referring were not planted by the family but were seeded by othertrees. It didn’t matter to the official. The couple and their daughter replanted the saplings, and the certificate of occupancy was granted.
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