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.
LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE ~ Hillary
Time for my rant ...
Permits and all public records on your personal property allow criminal elements to learn more about your private place. Maybe if they weren’t open to the public I wouldn’t have such an issue.
Why must the world know about my hot tub or exercise room or anything that is ON MY PROPERTY ???
There was a time that someone snooping had to go in person and ask for the file at the city or country building. There would be a record of whom ever had to snoop.
Today the web allows everyone access virtually anonymously.
Time to stop this crap. Shut down the permit offices.
Permits, schmermits! They are for the little people, NOT the Klintoons!
Right and the philosphy: Why tell the truth when a lie will do?
In NYS, this will infuriate a lot of people who are being impoverished by sky high property taxes....
I agree with you. Too much personal stuff out there on the internet.
I am usually rather anti-permit for home renovations/improvements, as an invasion of our privacy and right to do with our property as we want - without paying the government to exercise that right -
But his is a picture of the Clintons and their total disrespect for the rule of law.
Yep. Their history bears that out. No exaggerations at all.
I’ve re-roofed a number of homes through the years. Even if it were a MANSION, which I’m sure it was, it was a matter of a few hundred bucks for a permit.
Remember when they wrote off Slick’s old underwear on their taxes?
These people are Arkansas Grifter TRAILER TRASH! Always have been, always will be! WHAT were they doing being President of the USA and now RUNNING for President?
Gawd!
Good one! I didn’t think of that. (Look who did the lines in the movie!)
See Post #20.
A few thousand dollars in fines?
In many counties, retroactive permits are quintuples in terms of fees. Triple is VERY common. New York? Bwahaha, yeah they’ll give you a break. Sure.
While I understand your point, and have sympathy for it up to a point, permits do have a purpose. It protects the next homeowner from having non-code work get slipped through during a change of ownership.
It also protects the homeowner who is modifying his own home. Sometimes folks don’t have the slightest idea what they are doing.
I’ve run into do it yourself jobs even as a private person that made my hair stand on end.
Sub-par electrical creating serious hazards of fire and electrocution, sub-par load bearing, mold buildup due to improper construction.
If there are children in the home, this can create a very dangerous situation for them. Of course, the adults too...
F the Clintons - JAIL EM
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In my state if you do the home repairs yourself on your home, permits are pretty much treated with a `salutary neglect’ policy: replacing switches, an outlet, a hard-wired fixture, etc. I had a contractor look at an outdoor sub-panel and a switch beyond my ken. No one gets a permit for such things.
But things like an electrical re-wiring job by a contractor, particularly in a state demanding gun owners register their firearms—they deserved to get gigged.
This is Billary throwing their weight around as usual, thumbing their noses at law. These people should be fined at least, although they both deserve prison for their actions over the years.
In some parts of NYS, you need a permit to replace a faucet. You can do it yourself, but you’re still supposed to get a permit.
Bossy towns have bankrupted people over this. Clintons, who never met a govt. empowerment program they didn’t love should walk the talk.
And we know folks who can’t sell their homes because no buyer wants to assume the insane property taxes. If the Toons have been property tax dodging, that’ll PO a heckuva lotta NYSers.
There is so much information on us online including relatives and friends. There is no more privacy.
The permit costs are the least of it. The increase in assessment and huge increase in property taxes are what they were likely trying to avoid, also attention on their STAR status if there’s anything squirrely there.
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