A 3-day cancellation notice, informing you of your right to cancel your contract if you signed the agreement in your home, or at a place other than at the contractor's office or business;All warranties on the owner's rights; A statement warning, in ten point bold type or larger, directly above the space provided for the signature, the following: DO NOT SIGN THIS CONTRACT IF THERE ARE ANY BLANK SPACES.Whether any lien or security interest is on the residence as a consequence of the contract.An enumeration of such other matters upon which the owner and contractor may lawfully agree.Any other provisions otherwise required by the applicable laws of the Commonwealth.A clause informing the owner about: any and all necessary construction-related permitsthat the contractor must obtain such permits.that owners who secure their own building permits or deal with unregistered contractors will not be eligible to access the Guaranty Fund.Acceleration of payment: No contract can contain an acceleration clause that would require any part or all of the balance not yet due to be declared due and payable because the contractor deems himself to be insecure.

We thought the contractor took care of all the permits and such... well he didn't. 

The septic was permitted for a 1 bedroom tank and the house is a 3/2.

Payed for roof permit to be pulled. 

At our current rental we obtained the permits ourselves as the homeowner without any problem and did the work ourselves which saved us a lot of money.

Illegal most everywhere because cities want businesses to pay permit fees for signs and these do not.

@Ray Agosto, I would look into the permit costs to add bedrooms to the basement as well as the code requirements (i.e. having closets, recessed windows, alternate exits, etc).

Can't pull permits around here without the license.

Often it is the association that has CC&R and city permit compliance dept.

I don't mean that to sound cold, but for me this needs to be a business decision, not a situation where I should expose myself to extra risk to be sympathetic.