“I just keep getting more and more dumbfounded by this better flip project.  Especially as someone who has done work in Willowick in the past.  If this was any private for profit company running this job, stop work orders and fines would have been issued months ago.

Outside of us taxpayers getting taken to the cleaners on construction has anyone thought about the potential liability of the project to the taxpayers?

We have an unqualified, unregistered, and uninsured person serving as a general contractor on this job.  He is hiring subcontractors that are knowingly performing work without permits.  (they hold State issued licenses for HVAC, Electrical, and Plumbing surely they are aware of the legal requirements for permits)  What if someone gets hurt on this job, we are exposed to an unacceptable amount of liability.  When you run jobs illegally it is pretty hard to win in court claiming that you were doing things the right way.

Going one step further, how are we going to sell this house?  In Ohio, you must disclose all known defects with a property.  Are we going to disclose to the new buyer that the work was performed by an unqualified general contractor?  Are we going to disclose that the permits were obtained after the fact and that most likely not everything was inspected to the degree that it should have been?  If we don’t disclose these things then we are opened up to liability if anything goes wrong with these repairs in the future.

If we do disclose these things do you think that a bank will provide a loan?  The second you tell the bank hey I would like $150,000 for a house that was just completely remodeled by an unqualified individual that used unregistered contractors that had their business credentials canceled for not paying taxes and did a lot of the work without permits, do you think the bank is going to be like oh sure we would love to loan on this house?”