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RE: I was Extorted 1250€ Yesterday!
I love that you think engineers/architects are the equivalent of children randomly drawing lines anywhere. It really puts your views on government into context.
The law is there for a reason, the only stupid part is that they don't make that inspection part of the selling process so the original owner would be responsible.
Also, anyone sane knows you got lucky with that guy offering to reimburse you. Plenty of people would do that on purpose to save money and make it the next person's problem. Hell, maybe he did and just owned up to it because he got caught!
Well it was nothing of a level of a rocket scientist. He just came, measured the wall lenghts, and drawed a new schematic based on that. I could do the same easily without having an engineering diploma. Of course the government doesn't allow me to do it, so I have to hire a "specialist". What if I have an engineer acquaintance that would have done it for 250€ instead of 750€? Can't do that, only the government appointed one can do it.
It's a racket, where you don't have any choice. Don't you see the conflict of interests here?
Yes I got lucky with the guy reimbursing me, many other people do the same thing who cant afford a lawyer and have no possibility to go through thousands of pages of building regulation, so they get extorted 1000-10,000€ every single day.
And you really think that there are no corrupt bureaucrats that put that money in their pocket or use it as a slush fund? I think you don't know the nature of corrupt officials.
Don't you see the conflict of interest in getting your friends to sign off on safety?