Nor mine; since I did NOT manufacture them.
Posted on 10/28/2016 6:57:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
Earlier this year the Clinton’s bought the house next door to their current home in Chappaqua, NY for just over a million dollars. According to the Journal News, the Clintons then started renovations on the property without taking out permits for any of the work. At some point, someone turned them in and an inspector came out to have a look at the property:
[Building Inspector William] Maskiell, who said he visited the home Oct. 5, after the department received a complaint about excavation done there, said as he headed to the basement to talk to the contractor, he noticed the kitchen, floors and walls appeared to have been recently renovated and new electrical fixtures were being installed in the ceiling. The person who complained was not identified.
Maskiell said he told the contractor that permits were required.
“During conversation I was told that the owners wanted to have all work done and finished by Thanksgiving and were quite adamant about it and what had started as a paint job turned into this,” Maskiell’s Oct. 17 inspection report said.
As anyone who has ever had work done on their home by contractors knows, one of the first questions raised is usually, “Do you want to pull permits for this?” That’s because taking out permits can be costly and, more importantly, tends to slow down the work as contractors have to wait for an inspector to show up at the site and sign off on each element of the construction. If a contractor isn’t available that day or, worse yet, if he or she discovers a problem, the entire job could come to a halt. So the fact that this contractor was under pressure to get the job done quickly probably explains why no permits were pulled. But it’s not his home, it’s the homeowners who are responsible.
The story also notes that there are a few incomplete permits on the Clinton’s own home:
At 15 Old House Lane, a home at the end of a cul-de-sac where the Clintons have lived on and off since buying it for $1.7 million in 1999, Maskiell wrote that “during a standard records search and follow-up conversations” there were some outstanding permits there as well. That includes an electrical inspection at a library/gym, and a sprinkler sign-off by an engineer and the town water department, according to the building inspector’s October reports.
Granted this news has been completely overshadowed today by the FBI announcement. It’s not a huge story, though the Clintons may be hit with a few thousand dollars in fines for failing to get the permits in the first place as required. Mostly, this story is just one more example of the Clintons acting as if the rules do not apply to them.
They’re Pukes. Trailer Trash. Horrible Human Beings. Grifters. Malcontents. Gamers. Selfish money grubbers.
I’m so, SO tired of them!
Hurry, Karma! HURRY!
In the State of New York, that's not something new. A lot of people do this to lower their PROPERTY TAXES.
How would I know, as someone living in the Peoples Republic of (Western side, North of Seattle) Washington (state.)
My Mother & Father, when they sold their home approx 1973, {Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y.} condition of the sale of the home was REMOVAL of the Swimming Pool. The pool was 16' Ft. wide x 32 ' Ft. Long. 3-1/2' ft. to 7-1/2' Ft. deep. It was what is called half above ground & half below ground. On three sides had a 2'Ft. walk way, and at one end only, it was 10' ft. wide.
As for other people, I seen that they just filled in their builtin swimming pools with the very fine beach sand. It's similar to kids play sand, and or what was commonly used in ash trays to put your smokes out in. Very common on Long Island, and easily available & cheap.
If and when a owner/new owner decided to have a swimming pool again, very cheap to dig out, clean up, and just add water.
This is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It is a government of control and revenue, not necessarily in that order.
It is not just the permits - it is tax evasion since they would not have paid property taxes on the improved, and more valuable, property. But as another Hillary type elitist once famously told us, “Taxes are for the little people.”
This would be the headline for the next week if it were Hillary vs Jeb. Of course we don’t know if Jeb pulled permits or not, but the MSM would assume he did not.
When the building inspector said he was on the way to ___the_basement___ and noticed something, I thought oh here we go. Mass grave.
they got away with everything then and still are....
of course they feel entitled...
We don’ need no steenkin’ permits!
Ken, weren’t you a neighbor? Price on the adjoining property seems low?
Laws are for LITTLE PEOPLE!!
Nor mine; since I did NOT manufacture them.
Not the world; the King!
I'd not suggest this...
Calling Morocco now!
I had a new electrical panel installed and building inspector checked the job. Permits were pulled. Did not affect my property taxes.
Just who or whom would be stoopid enough to bury bodies ... on their property. Cmon.
Yes, actually this is a huge story. Nothing frustrates the average American homeowner than having to get permits - usually with costly fees attached - for simple home renovations. And when you’re dealing with a really nasty City Development Office, they can have you tear out everything you’ve done & make you start from scratch if they catch you doing stuff without a permit.
These are the people that are constantly stuffing rules & regulations & fees down our throats. How come such things never apply to them? And a contractor starting work where he KNOWS a permit is required might even lose his license!
Should have told them it was a muslim prayer porch
Permits are ostensibly required to keep buildings safe. They also trigger reassessments and tax increases. They just didn’t want to pay their “fair share” of taxes. BTW, in Massachusetts, the contractor or the homeowner can pull the permit, and it is relatively cheap, like $25 bucks last time I did it. In our small town, the inspectors are very accommodating, and generally show up when requested. I’ve never had any problem with them. Perfectly reasonable people.
Yeah but you know the Clintons don’t need no stinking permits. Permits are for the little people
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