With regard to "not needing to update this or that", that is where you may have screwed yourself.

I think they got screwed 5 or 6 years ago with a rash of inexperienced or even fraudulent borrowers who defaulted on their loans, and have since gotten much, much stricter. 

As for how they screwed me out several grand, I started by doing 2 of his events, and actually got a lot of value out of them for a great price.

He ended screwing me over big time with months of delays and going 20k over what was originally quoted.

They basically are screwing the next LL.Good luck

I know either way we are screwed.

It sounds like a tech capitalist dream, but in practice you get screwed.

I do understand that I screwed up and am taking it as a learning experience.

It sounds like you did the right thing and you don't live in CA where even doing the right thing you can be screwed. 

the inspection was easy but indicated I needed to add screws to the condenser to attach to platform (seems reasonable and no idea why contractor did not do it, he also trusted me to do it as no reinspection and all signed off), but more than a year to get the permit opened.