Choose the right district
Entrepreneur of the Week Noam Segal # Post 2
Hello friends,
First of all, thank you very much to everyone for the reactions and paragons in public and in person!
Today I want to talk about where you are going to build the house.
In the US 50 states so of course every state is different, for example a mediator contract in the state of Texas as opposed to a mediator contract in the state of Georgia is different.
The required bureaucracy is also different and the building codes are also not uniform between the countries.
But this is not the end of the verse, at the beginning of my journey I thought that if in the state of Georgia in Clayton County it takes a month to get building permits it is the same in Decalve County. So it's not, in Dekalb County it takes 6 months.
From my experience in the last five years the smaller the district the easier it will be to get the building permits and pass the inspections. As there are fewer people you can pick up the phone to the supervisor and close matters.
In a large district it will take construction inspectors longer to arrive, they really do not care if they delay your work and sometimes
Little things that can even be closed in sending a photo delay the project.
A little story about an incident that happened to me in one of the projects:
I had to demolish an old house and build a new one, on the face of it everything had to work.
The contractor applied for the demolition of the house and the film began. The Ministry of Construction did everything possible not to give the permit including marking trees as an excuse that we are not allowed to demolish the house when we explicitly said that we are only destroying a house and not touching the trees. I will just say that the process was very delayed because of all the difficulties they piled on us and then a letter arrived in the mail from the legal department of the same district saying that they would put Lynn on the house and summon us to court because the building is dangerous to humans ???? ♂️
So on the one hand they do not give me a demolition permit and on the other hand they sue me for not demolishing the house ???
I went to talk to the district attorney and explained the situation to her, and after I gave her the application numbers she gave us an extension.
I went with the contractor to the Ministry of Construction, showed them the claim and explained to them that I had talked to the district attorney and that if they did not give us permission to demolish then they would have to give explanations to the judge. Suddenly like a magic wand they dealt with an immediate request and approved the demolition.
It was an amazing moment that I will not forget. In retrospect, it also turned out that the person who complained was the CODE ENFORCMENT department and more
It turns out that if the owner does not demolish himself they bring in their own demolition contractor and charge you an exorbitant price. Someone from the department was a friend of the demolition contractor and they are doing a combina- tion between them.
Another case we had is a district that was under federal investigation because it violated the sewer code (laws and regulations about how much is allowed to be loaded on the sewer) and that caused them to load it more than the standard allows. The investigation caused all SEWER CAPACITY approvals to be stopped no matter if you are building a restaurant, a school or a house. The investigation also caused general delays in the district, and the approval process was very slow and caused significant delays in the project.
We could have overcome these obstacles more easily if we had worked with a contractor who works and knows the above district.
In a new construction project one must work according to the building codes to submit applications for building permits and undergo supervision throughout the project. This means that many times you are dependent not only on the contractor but on a third party that is not under your control, take this into account !!!
In the photo - the moment of victory in the battle in the district and the receipt of building permits. Tired but very satisfied!
post Scriptum.
Many times a certain city can partly belong to District A and part two to District B sometimes even at the level of the streets in the neighborhood, and as I explained it is two completely different worlds…. So pay attention.
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