yesterday i found out that our builders hadn't gotten the permit to build the deck yet.... had i not called the builder would i have found this out? nope.
but this whole permit business really irks me. had we just built our deck and not bothered with the village i would have a deck, but because of some "problem" with the village engineer we rule followers are stuck with 5 foot holes in our back yard and not allowed to proceed until the village figures out its own internal business.
Why do we need a permit? well.... because the village wants to make money.... why don't they just call it a tax, because then it would seem like they want to make money. this way they pretend to care about your personal safety by hiring an "inspector" to make sure whatever you are doing to your property is sound. now in theory i don't have a problem with protecting the people. but this is my property (or in the most legal sense partly mine and partly countrywide's) and if i want to hire shifty people and not make sure things are sound why make me? and if someone wants to buy my house without inspecting it first, then why "protect" future buyers. could a future buyer really sue the village for a unsound deck if they didn't have an inspection/permit process but can they sue if they do have a process but it isn't good and something happens to a structure that was inspected? (isn't that what had happened with the fire escape collapse?) this talk can go in circles i guess, but i just don't like village politics and antics. the permits and licences you need to obtain are all taxes but not called that so you can't write them off. and so they continue to nickle and dime you.... a large flat tax at the federal level would be so much better than all these stupid things.
wow ..that got me off on a tangent
aside from the hiccups the deck is getting there eventually. and the back yard is looking pretty good. i guess this means bill and i have to start thinking about our next projects.
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