"John and Carolyn Chekaway spent $400,000 of their life's savings building their dream retirement home on 20 forested acres they bought near Lake Michigan in 2002.
"Those are a handful of the home's 104 major building code violations that state inspectors should have caught..."
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At the demand of the state, the owners have spent $223,000 to verify their claims, hiring 20 building and engineering experts and generating over 4,000 pages of documentation.