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I know that sometimes it really is easier to ask forgiveness than permission, but it can also come back to bite you. In the case of building without a permit and hoping to ask forgiveness later, it's not uncommon for people to spend many times more to correct an un-permitted project once they get caught than it would have cost them had they just gotten a permit from the start.