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UNINSPECTED WORK HAUNTS WOULD-BE SELLERS
from the Miami Herald, 7 December 2003
"For Deborah Lesser, seven was anything but a lucky number. She was ready to sell her
Palmetto Bay home last spring, when she discovered her property had seven open building
permits dating to 1989 - before she even owned the home."
"'It became a total nightmare to get things cleared up,' said Lesser. 'It took an extra
six to eight weeks, and probably cost me an extra $8,000 before we could finally close.'
Lesser sold her four-bedroom home for $475,000 in July."
"'It's buyer beware,' said Bill Plasencia an architect at Building Permit Services,
a Miami company that helped Lesser resolve her permit problems. Permits stay with the
property, not with the owner who took them out. 'If you buy it, you buy the problems.'
Brown said. 'Then you have to either bring the property up to code by closing out the
permits or taking care of the violations.'"'
Like many South Florida homeowners, Lesser did not realize that there were open permits
on her property. That's because a typical title search done to verify ownership of a
residential or commercial property prior to closing a sale does not include checking for
expired permits...."
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