Inspector Issues

Lately Ryan and I have had some pretty frustrating, but also hysterical "Inspector" issues. This is a long story and still also in the process, but I couldn't let this one go by without sharing. So here goes...

A couple weeks ago Ryan came home from work, went into his shop to do some things and found a notice stapled to the wall from the City of Pasco Inspector. Apparently he had come by, inspected our shop without us knowing or even calling him to come. Ryan came in the house and asked me if I was aware as the papers said that he had knocked on the door and no one answered. Because no one answered, he just helped himself to our back yard. Being that we were not working on any remodeling in the shop or house and had not called an inspector to inspect anything, we were both frustrated. Especially my Husband, as he has a young wife, and new infant child home alone all day and some creep helps himself to our back yard. Once Ryan glanced better at the papers he realized that the idiot had the wrong house. He was supposed to be inspecting our neighbors house. So, Ryan took the papers to the neighbors, explained the issue, came home aggravated about everything, but let it go.

About a week after that he received another paper from the Inspector, but this time in the mail. The inspector was basically sending him paperwork saying that he had inspected everything and we would need to make our payment to him, as well as fix the issues for our permit. We both looked at it and thought, what an idiot, it wasn't our house and we aren't doing anything about it. So we didn't.

Then, today we received another packet of papers. The inspector must have realized his mistake,(Obviously because our neighbors must have called him. Our neighbors took off a full day of work waiting for him to come.) but also realized that our permit for the shop wasn't actually in the shop and up to code for the City of Pasco. Apparently when the house and shop were built it was never up to par, but should have been before the house was sold to the second owners, and Ryan and I. We even had the house inspected before we purchased it and this problem was not caught! He now sent us a bill for the new permit and saying that we not only needed to pay and fix the problems, but have him come and inspect it and pay him! Lets just say that Ryan was livid.

After calling our Realtor for our inspectors phone number, talking with a few friends in the law business and of course my Dad, we came to some conclusions from the Inspectors paperwork. My Dad noticed that the dates that he put on the paper that he sent us were not valid to the date he actually inspected our shop. Therefore he was lying to make it look like we had actually called him out, when we didn't, therefore it is fraud. Also, he basically trespassed onto our property. Inspectors have the right to check any property that they have been called out too, and he was not called out to ours. And, according to the law you only need a permit for new remodels to your home or if you are building, which we are not. I love my Dad. :) He is great with things like this and will be taking care of the issue for us. But, what bad luck! Ryan and I haven't lived in this house for a year and it was built in 2001 which means that two sets of owners have lived in the house with this issue and haven't had a problem!

We seriously have bad luck! Hopefully we will get some good luck and this issue will be fixed.

Dang Inspectors... Is it really that hard to find the correct address when it is right in front of you on your paperwork and you are clearly parked in front of the houses to check and see? Honestly... I would be worried if he was my inspector if he can't figure out where he is, how does he know what he is doing? :/