A woman facing foreclosure after the addition she wanted built was done without permits.
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The woman thought she paid for the licenses, but the county says nobody ever filed the required paperwork for construction.
Tammy Allen showed Channel 9 the room she built after her family was kicked out of their apartment.
“I was trying to help my son and my grandchild,” Allen said. “They would have been outside because they can’t afford the rent.”
She hired her first contractor in 2022, and work was started without a permit.
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“Starting to rebuild a place for them, and that’s when everything started to happen,” Allen said.
She was given this violation with a $200-a-day fine since neither she nor the contractors ever obtained a permit.
“He kept saying we’ll we’re going to get the permit,” Allen said. “The permit is here, but every time I talk to the people at the code enforcement, they say no.”