It continues

[tsaiko]

The saga of the house continues!

I swear when this is over, and we either have the house or have walked away from this "deal", I am going to have to write a novel. It has been insane. Although this has been my favorite saying (courtesy of me when trying to explain the situation to my co-worker).

"I can claim to own Trump Towers all I want, but it doesn't make it true. And until I produce a deed with all the official signatures and seals, I'm just an idiot or a liar. Honestly, I can't figure out which one this guy is."

Also, miome has been absolutely wonderful about following up and figuring out what to do next. I love her so, so much. <3

Comments

[sasami.livejournal.com]

If you're trying to verify ownership of the house, I know that Wake County will let you do a search of real estate properties and tax bills. You may want to see if your local county does the same.

Someone should have already checked this as part of due diligence, either your real estate agent or the realtor (assuming one is being used to sell the house), but... Stuff happens.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Actually, the issue is that the permit for the addition on the house was never given final approval. This means that 30% of the house cannot legally be occupied. And the seller's reaction up to this point has been "But I swear it was approved."

Well, yeah, but your paperwork says it wasn't buddy. So produce paperwork that says otherwise or fix it.

[sasami.livejournal.com]

That's... interesting.

I thought contractors wouldn't do work until all the approvals were in. (Good contractors, anyway.) I know Will had to go through that when he got his new deck built.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Here's the interesting part: the guy is a general contractor. So he pulled the permit, got the iterative approvals (the smaller approvals as the process went along), and then claims that he didn't know he didn't get the final approval. All the other permits this guy obtained have the final approval clearly marked. Heck, this guy was the one to tell us that the final approval is stamped and signed on the back of the permit.

Lying or an idiot, I am telling you.

[sasami.livejournal.com]

Either is possible. Hanlon's Razor would suggest "idiot".

It could simply be that he thought he had final approval but didn't verify it. Either way, yes, he either needs to provide proof that it really was approved or do whatever needs to be done to get it approved after the fact.