Hilton Head council member explains lack or permit after devastating 2022 home fire

Ordinances of the town of Hilton Head Island require a building permit before any significant remodeling of one's house is undertaken. I think that's a rule that is known certainly to almost everybody, including all of the builders and residents. In November of the same year, we had a massive fire at our home. Massive. We were dislocated from our home. We hired a local reef restoration company that was associated, in fact, owned by another builder, a very large, very luxurious builder on the island. That builder came in and very competently put our home back together. But guess what he didn't do? He didn't get a permit. So a local builder building multimillion-dollar homes, who should know better, didn't get a permit. Guess what we didn't know? That he didn't get a permit. agreement about quality piece of the work we parted ways within a month later after not being able to find a contractor we went into Beaufort County and signed a contract the non-resident affidavit so you can be your own contractor and hired competent licensed contractors to complete work when I did that discovered that the builder did not create a get a permit and so I I was told by town staff just add it to this permit so my husband and I are covering any liability for the future of a very very well-known big expensive builder because he failed not us he failed to get a permit