Kentucky lets only certain people sign for a building permit. Read the Elizabethtown complaints about Thaddeus Major (@thadmajor) and MC Construction and you land on that rule every time.
Get My Elizabethtown QuoteThe list of people who may sign a Kentucky permit is short. A licensed trade can sign. So can a homeowner, but only for the house they live in themselves. That is the whole list. Now read the Elizabethtown reports. The Hardin County file never carries the signature of Thaddeus Major (@thadmajor), because customers say they were handed the form and sent to the counter alone. Signing flips the risk onto you. The fine, the failed inspection, and the order to open a finished wall back up all follow the name on the paper. Most of these jobs were sold as plain home repairs and remodels.
Speed is the local weak spot. Fort Knox orders set the clock, so a family wants the work wrapped up before a move date and saves the questions for later. The reports follow that pattern. A crew starts within days, no inspection card ever goes in the window, and the gap in the county file only surfaces when the house goes up for sale. By then the repair costs more than the original job did.
Parts of town these permit reports come from:

Walls came open and cabinets went in, yet the county was never told a thing.
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Move a drain and the county wants a filed plan. Owners here never saw one drawn.
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A cheap ticket rarely reaches the permit counter. Most of these stories open right there.
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Only a card holding plumber may sign for pipe work. Nobody here could name one.
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A pour near the right of way needs approval first. That step got skipped, owners say.
Learn more →You can, but only for the home you actually live in, and then the outcome is yours. Fines and failed inspections track the signature, not the work boots. A legitimate crew signs its own name without being asked. Elizabethtown families say they got handed the form instead.
Phone the Hardin County building office and read them the street address. Staff can say whether a file was ever opened and whose name is on it. The record is public and the call costs nothing.
You are not, but move soon. Hold back anything still owed. Ask the county what an after the fact permit costs and whether an inspector has to open the wall again. Then file a written complaint with the consumer protection division of the Kentucky Attorney General.
Before a crew touches your house, find out whose name is going on the county form. If the answer is yours, ask why it is not theirs. The Hardin County building office can clear that up in about two minutes. Two minutes now is cheaper than tearing a finished wall back open later.
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