Inspections and Dealing with Unwarranted basement unit?

[Matt Zing]

Hello All.

I own a home in San Francisco and in process of remodeling of kitchen and siding work with permit. I did get permit to remodel the kitchen and permit to the replace siding and also got plumbing and electrical permit which also required for the kitchen. During the inspections the inspector wanted to inspect the basement of the home where the unwarranted space existed and where plumbing work that might have been done without permits, this is done before us buying the home.

For now, we did not allow the inspector to inspect the basement but we it will be required.

What will be the best route to take – should be get a permit to legalize the basement space or show it, as is. We are not planning to rent the space basically use it as additional storage space. Any advice will be helpful .

Thank you.