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I've had real incentive to consider this week's topic:  How permits affect commercial loan underwriting.  To be clear, "un-permitted" work on a property is work that was done without the local city building and safety department knowing about it.  When you ran into that property with un-permitted work, you may have been initially surprised to learn that lender involved disallowed any income or value attributable to those improvements.