We bought our house three years ago. The township came out and inspected everything. Nothing on the exterior of our house has changed, except our yearly gutter cleaning. Well, today we got a letter of code violation - they claim our gutters are broken --- the pieces they are complaining about were not there when we bought the house, and we had no idea they needed to be replaced. If they did, we would have replaced them imediately. Now we have 10 days to make a $300 repair or be fined $400. We don't even have ten dollars in the bank. I know. I checked the bank today.

Can they enforce code violations if the house was approved by THEM less than three years ago (ok, 2 years and 11 months ago)? Why didn't they enforce it when we bought the hosue? Can we claim finaicial hardship?

UGH... I hate this town so much anymore. Did you know we got a citation for the graffitti on our shed. We painted over it in less than 15 hours and they wanted to fine us anyway. There's a guy that drives around in a golf cart just picking apart everyone's property, and since we are closest to a busy road, he seems to notice EVERYTHING about us. Once we got a letter saying ONE WEED was taller than 10". I ran outside and measured this weed -- 10.25" OMG... I asked him if he ran around with a ruler measuring weeds!

Anyhow, this is part rant, part question.