Dealing with L&I - Need Advice

[Michael Lenahan]

Need Advice dealing with L&I...

Just settled on SFH in West Philadelphia and the house was rerecently slapped with a L&I violation - House is unsafe for occupancy.

The back bedroom has fire (smoke) damage, but nothing too serious.

My question is what is the best way to deal with L&I.

I could rehab the whole house and call L&I when I'm done to inspect or engage L&I now and have them tell me what to fix and how to fix it.

Anyone have experience dealing with L&I?

Mike

[Jack Liberi Jr.]

Would highly recommend going through the process and calling L&I as many times as it takes to get the inspector out to the property and let him physically show you what he wants done. It saves you a lot of head aches and restless nights especially if the job gets shut down. Usually the inspectors are decent guys and if you explain the situation they will pretty much give you step by step instructions on how to rectify the issue.