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Originally Posted by jimmy o
Every preowned home has had unapproved changes made to it. If you buy a new home you too will have unapproved changes made to it within a year or two. Did you install a ceiling fan yourself or have a handyman do it? Did you change a light switch without a licensed electrician, was his license date still valid? Did you put in a ring doorbell? There are many degrees of unapproved changes. You’re buying a house, you’ve got enough to worry about without worrying about non consequential trivia. Do you like the house? Does the outside fit in with the neighborhood? Stop fretting and buy it, then start doing your own updates.
Of course there will be some to respond here that I should be shot for saying this, but those that respond have unapproved changes that they don’t even realize they have.
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As far as I know there is no approval required to replace a ceiling fan, change a light switch, or install a ring doorbell. Those are not the unapproved changes that will come back to bite a homebuyer.
I can say with 100% certainty that there have been no unapproved changes to my home in the seven years I have owned it.
I didn't pull the issues I mentioned in post #3 out of thin air, they have all been subjects of compliance hearings and fines in the past. Correcting those, or paying the fines are hardly non-consequential, trivial issues.