After yesterday’s disaster recovery center visit, we decided we should learn more about the permitting process–not only for the debris, but what it will look like when/if we rebuild. We waited for good long time, and while we learned some useful information we are almost certain that we will have to go through a long, drawn-out process to get a lot of permits. Read: this will take a very long time. Why?
Well, we are almost certain that the man who sold us our house went through the permitting process for many aspects of our house. What that means for us is that we would likely lose square footage on our house, which wasn’t even that big to begin with. Our house was also built in the 1920s, when permits were a different animal. All this means we will undoubtedly need to go through the regular, long, difficult permit process rather than the fire victim expedited process.
This was not great news. I’m trying so hard to find something positive but it is HARD.
From the Ashes 