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Old 03-11-2015, 08:33 AM
 
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Watching "Flip or Flop" (located in Calif.) and the people purchase a house from a bank, and as they get ready to renovate/flip it, somebody from the city comes out and tells the people that there's an ongoing unpermitted back room problem, and, unless they take it down or get it permitted, they can't sell the house.
But the bank sold the house to them.
Not sure why this was never explained in the episode, but, in real life, for houses that have legal problems with a municipality, can banks get away with selling houses that the people who just bought them can't?
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Old 03-11-2015, 12:09 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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Not sure the legal answer. But I do know that during the 'foreclosure crisis' , lot's of foreclosed homes in L.A had unpermitted areas.

I think it's an issue of there are so many that it's hard to go after all of them.

In City of L.A the resources are so limited that I doubt the city has much time to go after homeowners for unpermitted structures.

I know that in other cities the cities are pretty aggressive with fines and violations..but I don't see too much of that in L.A
I just think it's because the city is so big and they can't manage it.

Just curious..do you know what part of CA it was in..I'm guessing probably a smaller city and not L.A
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