I’ll be the first to say that it’s generalizing to say that city government is slack, lame, inefficient, etc. It’s definitely easy to do when your waiting on them and their mood to make things happen. It’s like with any position, it’s a control thing. It’s also relationships. If you go to the city every week or month to do business you build relationships. If you’re building one house, there’s no sending cards during the holiday season afterwards. Whatever – we were in the thick of checking off our CO list.

We had gone through electrical inspection, hvac which I believe is the same that checks your gas lines. Since I have to check with Russ first I will refrain from saying which inspector flat out asked for a bribe – yes, City of Atlanta Inspector. Russ was the only one there, walking through each item and when they got to the end there was a matter to be resolved in which the inspector said “What’s it worth to you?” Thanks City of Atlanta. 

At that point you’re probably wondering why didn’t we call this guy’s supervisor. Well, we hadn’t gotten our final approval from him #1, and #2 we had a huge task of getting our Certificate of Occupancy. Not really anything we wanted to put in jeopardy at this time.

These photos are of our inspection with the City of Atlanta’s Arborist. He came by, took a look and approved our little oak tree we had to plant (Thanks Rob!). He also noticed that we had been staging on our neighbor’s lot (Thanks Herman!). He insisted we go a step further from silt fencing and seed and hay the lot. Honestly we were fine with this, just wish it wasn’t necessary for our CO. I mean c’mon!

We did their bidding as you see in the pictures. Return to nature fair neighbor’s lot.