The Real Estate listing agent should be responsible and held liable for having home inspections performed with regard to ANY possible County code violations. whether it be illegal down stairs enclosures, mold, electrical, plumbing and septic system issues. The County can and will impose fines on the new home buyer, if any issues should arise after the sale. You see in Monroe County, any past or present code violations found on a property if for some reason the property were to inspected by a County code officer/inspector after the sale. The new owner is responsible to fix and bring the property into current code compliance.

Just more government in our lives.

This is just another opportunity for the lawyers to make money and the county to spend money. I can just hear the "cha chings" in the air. If FEMA wants the inspections, then FEMA should require one prior to issuing a new flood insurance policy. If this is the case, then the Buyer should have to pay for this during their inspection period and the Seller should . If they don't like the results, they can either renegotiate the contract or they can find another property. Either way, this is not an issue that should be criminalized!

Go ruin another county Hurley.

The county staff has too much time on their hands. Their ineffective and combative natures have once again been exposed. Their ideas are seriously flawed and will create a cataclysmic legal backlash. They want to criminalize the people that you serve. If that's all they can come up with, please have them submit their resignations. The county staff is filled with incompetents. It appears that their theft of the taxpayers money via the I-Pad scams, is a telling sign. Commissioners, please have the sense not to listen to these malfeasant idiots.