Parma Building Department Trouble

[Terry Kavouras]

Lately the Parma, OH Building Department has been aggressively assessing fines, writing tickets and trying to collect rental registration fees from prior years.  Has anyone else run afoul of the Parma Building Department?  And if so, what, if anything, are you doing about it?  

Last year they dinged me for a cracked driveway.  It cost me $800 to fix the few minor cracks to their satisfaction. Last month they ticketed me for "debris" on the front lawn of one of my properties.  No one could explain what the debris was, specifically.  Rather than spend half a day in court (and court costs even if I win) I simply paid the ticket of $160.  This week I received rental registrations that they failed to send me for from 2015, with penalties!  I have four properties in Parma and this is getting extremely costly.  Anyone have any advice?