WaPo: "Suit against D.C. rowhouse renovators claims shoddy work, permit problems"

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Note the reference to a Bloomingdale rowhouse.

Suit against D.C. rowhouse renovators claims shoddy work, permit problems

By Ian Shapira May 7 at 7:20 PM

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine filed a lawsuit Thursday against a Northern Virginia couple renovating rowhouses in some of Washington’s trendiest neighborhoods, accusing them of duping people into buying homes that violate city construction codes and contain substandard materials.

The complaint in D.C. Superior Court alleges that Insun Hofgard, 53, and her husband, Jefferson Hofgard, 56, a senior executive at Boeing, misled buyers by “making misrepresentations” about their homes, omitting “material facts” about the construction work, and purposely getting “cursory and inadequate” inspections.
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At a Bloomingdale property, the lawsuit says, the Hofgards built a third-story addition — known as a pop-up — without obtaining the proper permit, which would have triggered a zoning review.
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