Originally Posted by gfretwell
My wife was talking to the girl who she brought up in the house business back in the happy times. She is working for a developer and it seems that the permit people in the Orlando area are actually trying to slow down the permit process.
The real estate people who control the county council think they need to limit new construction until inventory has worked itself down. That is probably great on a macro economic basis but it is tough if you are a builder with a lot of "sold and un-built". Of course it is also tough on the trades who would like the work.

The flip side is, real estate taxes are based on home prices and excess inventory drives down those prices.


Yup , welp , i'm on a huge ( i mean acres, people use cell phones to find each other) job lauded as Springfiled Vermonts economic salvation Greg

And you know, i was nervous walking into it all, spent considerable time trying to cross my T's, dot my I's etc

Of course, all the local politicians have made it thier mecca to stump about how great it all is, and take credit

But what's also happening is, almost every imaginable code/osha/life safety/employment/permit violation you could think of

And this is right on down the street from the state offices, in fact they pass by it every morning on their way in /out

I have never been involved in situational ethics of this magnitude , where everyone of authority 'looks the other way'

nor do i approve of any given offical process bowing down to politics