What building codes have you been burned by?

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I've heard stories about people blowing out their budgets because of codes related to things like window size/height in bedrooms, electrical and plumbing stuff, even things like having to expand the waste lines when adding a bedroom. Has anyone gotten burned by these or other things? Not sure how common this type of thing actually is.

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Just recently had a housing inspector through one of my properties and they said the window was too small. Had to take it out, cut a larger opening, put in a window that meet egress requirements. Kind of a pain.