Sellers Beware - Check Your Permits in Redding, CT!
A beautiful colonial home that I recently listed in Redding, CT had two offers within the first 3 days! Both were close to list price, -- One was for cash, and the other was for a 20% down conventional mortgage. My sellers were ecstatic, since they had had the home listed with other realtors for the past several years with no success. I raised the price by $100, showed them that they needed to clean out and clean up, and viola! Offers!! Luck? Skill? We'll never really know, but it's happening on 
my watch!
A trip to the Redding Town Hall Health Deptartment to check for the dreaded oil tank removal certificate proving safe soil samples were taken, and then to the Building Department to check on the status of any open permits and maps of septic, etc. proved to have crazy results.
No oil tank anything. Darn! The oil tank had been removed from the ground by the previous owners, and then no paperwork had been passed on to my sellers. 
At the Building Department, the inspector informed me that there were several outstanding open permits. Furnace, hot water heater, and generator were still open. So, my sellers had some corrective work ahead of them. Was it that the permits had just never been signed off? Was it that the furnace installers never got the town back out to close the permit? We don't know, but it certainly adds to the confusion, and I am glad we started when we did, or it would have perhaps delayed the closing!
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