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Most lawyers would have no idea about this. You need to contact your Board and run the specifics by them.

Can you clarify? If there's no drawings/specs to review are you physically visiting the site and climbing underneath the home to verify...

IRstuff, there is no "implicit concurrence with the structural capability of the house" implied by stamping floor plans that do not...

Wouldn't that be more than adequate?

For a first time poster here, StructuralCap, it might be good if you sourced this information. Otherwise one here might be inclined to...

Well to me the highest risk is the next big party after the concrete around those "iffy" J bolts gets cracked and deteriorated by...

I love the summary given by gte447f above and agree with all of it. Since the OP referred to Tennessee - here's a quote from that...

At the second floor don't you have a floor diaphragm that effectively braces the columns every which way?

I would just overlap them yes.

I was mentioning that some type of ethical/professional response was called for not because there was no engineer involved (reportedly)...

One other thought - unfolding the anchors is probably necessary to use Profis but when you do that the "outer" anchors assigned to a...

The circular column allows a final resultant to be applied as though it were aligned with a major axis...whichever direction that...

Hmmm. So as licensed engineers who are aware of a design that is being constructed that doesn't meet code and poses a risk to public...

Yes - I tell the contractor to go hire a good structural engineer to determine if their particular machine can be safely supported by...

Another problem is getting the new LSL's to bear on the existing wall each end??? Or were you planning something else at the ends to...