This is part 1 of our presentation we do at Realtor events or any events interested in our permit and code violation resolution services.

Transcript

Hi everyone, this is Benjamin Sens from BOSS Construction your South Florida permitting and code compliance specialist coming to you today to show you some things we’ve been working on. This is for residents in South Florida. This is for people in the South Florida business community. And this is for real estate professionals. Here’s a little bit of background about myself. I used to be a city inspector in Miami Gardens and in western handling, permitting and code compliance issues. So I know the other side of the counter, I’m a general contractor, I have code enforcement certifications. My background is in urban planning. So I understand a lot about planning, zoning, code enforcement, basically anything having to do navigating with the city or the county, what we call the local jurisdictions, people having authority over businesses and building permits and any type of licensing. My background also is in real estate. So for you real estate professionals out there I understand very well the hardships that sellers face when trying to cure these violations, things they already paid someone else to do things they inherited from a couple properties, a couple property owners ago and those we will go over. We’re going to handle some common permitting and code violations today, our residential or commercial or industrial properties, we’re going to go over some best practices. And we’re going to go over some things that you could do as a property owner or real estate professional, on how to prevent things from happening last minute when you’re closing on your property and give you good information on when you’re working with a contractor. Hopefully, someone who’s licensed and insured, how to make sure that they’re doing the right thing and get your project done right.

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your property end up leaning the property or having any issues on on the residential side. We’re going to go over some additions. This is our first one from Biscayne Park, which is a small jurisdiction out of North Miami. This is a particular city that has something called re occupancy inspections. And it’s not a city, it’s a village because that’s what they call it like the town of Davy, the village of Biscayne Park. Okay, so this is a small jurisdiction in in near the city of North Miami, and North Eastern Miami Dade County, again, a lot of old housing stock, a lot of problems going on within these particular houses where people have renovated them without permits. That’s something that we get into. And also people have inherited violations from other property owners. This particular violation where you see the staircase, six months before the property was being sold, the owners decided who were absentee owners from the west coast of the United States to go ahead and renovate the entire property. So what happened Was code enforcement cited them for building and bathroom for building permit kitchen and bathroom renovations. Other interior remodeling, keep in mind guys, everything basically needs a permit, even if it’s a single family residence. Now you guys can act as your own contractor. But the authority having jurisdiction, in this case, Biscayne Park, they want to come out to make sure the electrical, the plumbing, everything is done to code. This is a particular case where we have the kitchen on the left side. And on the right side where you see this picture, there’s a staircase, why do I bring the staircase to you? Because it’s very important that when we bring the city or the building department into the property, that everything else meet compliance or they might not close that