I was in the courthouse once for jury duty, but it can be a little overwhelming when you don't know what floor or what department you're looking for. 

It is a HUGE money drain to your bottom line, and because of all the laws and health department inspections, which force you to comply, your hands are virtually tied to keeping the pool in operational condition and up to code.Good luck!

Once you get through in-take (which can take a while, as you've already found out), it could be a couple days or a couple weeks before permits are granted, depending on the number of questions/revisions they require, the complexity of the work, which departments need to approve it, etc.In this thread, I detail a new residential construction project that was permitted through City of Atlanta -- while the scope of this project is likely greater than what you're looking to do, it took us several months to get through permitting:Diary of a New Construction ProjectBy contrast, my partner has applied for new construction permits in a couple other counties, and permits can be granted in a matter of days.

I just wanted to follow up with some information I got from the probate department at the courthouse.

The last three years I have been working in various supply chain management roles for Fortune 500 companies, mainly in purchasing departments.

Sounds like discrimination based on national origin to me.If you go to the Department of Justice's website, (http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/hce/housing_coverage.php#nat) you'll see that this type of discrimination is on the upswing.

Perhaps it was missed, criminal activity may allow the government to seize the property, it's not a bank foreclosure, the government takes it, auctions it off, pays liens off and sends the equity or ill gotten gains through the justice department funding operations.Call the Sheriff's Dept or county court records to see what the status is, if any, if there are such issues, you can't get anything from that sale.

It will be interesting to see what kind of a response I get from the Bailiffs department.

Department of Justice guide to keeping illegal activity out of rental property.One of the key components is warning signs of drug activity.Please read that guide over for some suggestions.

This has been argued til the cows came home and left again.The very best source to get this answered will be from your state department of finance or the CFPB (if they Fed will give an answer).What you're asking about is "loan classification".