Hazzard County
I'd consider going to the city council meeting and asking the question of why the home passed inspection when it obviously doesn't meet code nor is up to industry standards. Ask them why are you paying for the permit and inspection if the job isn't being done. Maybe a letter to the state building department asking the same thing.
City council? In Augusta? You mean this guy?
In all seriousness, this guy was the former Mayor of Augusta.
He owns a hog barbecue restaurant. Can you guess what his nickname is?
Know what happens when the anti-shoddy-work Home Inspector goes in to a home like this, and makes a report about 30 pages long? Builder and Plumber label Home Inspector a PITA (that's their goto move, or they will browbeat you like some of the plumbers do on this site - no disrespect to the one's that dont) and will then black-list the Home Inspector. They call him the "deal killer" Home Inspector.
If a Real Estate Agent brings that same inspector out to the same Builder or to the same Plumbing co a second time, now the agent is black-listed. Nothing new there. Now, consumers have one less shot at getting "quality work." Who's going to take care of the consumer now? No one. They're on their own. They don't even know it.
Taking the City Council route is like swinging at the wind. Show up at City Council and now you're labeled a "crazy PITA". If a known guy goes all City Council on them, he'll be black-listed by the City Council, too. As for the follow up with the State, based on the State's performance, it just isn't reasonable to assume they would do anything about it. I've been there before. Learned quite a bit about how they operate. It's all very tiring. Using a letter to the State as an idle threat towards the County is kind of laughable. I appreciate the suggestion, though. All I can seem to do is vent on this site, and try to get a good laugh (although it's not funny for the consumer).
P.S. The spammers and blogging to sell services by "loosely relating" their stories would decline drastically if someone would install the nofollow addon in this forum. It's a must have. You're losing page rank, diluting threads/information, and inviting spammers without it.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=228614
[EDIT] Turns out, the nofollow is built in to your version of VB. However, since I don't admin VB, I'm not sure if it works on signatures and thread bodies, or just thread bodies. The setting is here:
Settings -> Options -> BBCode Settings