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ISaver, the clients who buy from your DH are fortunate and I wish contractors here worked to his standard. For 15 yrs. we lived across the street from a city inspector. One of the guys to verifies a house meets code before it can be sold. He would leave for work at 7 am ea. morning and return home before 8 a.m. That is he signed in, picked up his 'call' sheet and returned home. Between 3-4 p.m. he would leave again, presumably meet the foreman from the various builders at a convenient spot and sign off sheets to release homes to be sold. One day I stopped at a nearby cafe to meet a friend and there was our neighbor, having a cold drink and slowly guys came in, see him, have a cold beer as they busily signed papers.

I wanted to call City licensing but I didn't have a picture , couldn't prove anything and DH insisted I do nothing...except hire a house inspector and make it conditional on any offer to buy a house.

Point is, it's all based on personal experience.