Last July saw the buildings department of Chicago revoke the permit privileges of Donovan Eckhardt’s Greymark Development Group, which handles a lot of projects featured on the show.
HGTV reported that a whopping 9.3 million people watched Windy City Rehab for the first month and a half it aired, but it sounds like things might not be totally above board with all the home rehabs that get done for the renovation series.
Greymark was subjected to a year-long ban, but the punishment was cut down to 45 days, while, as of late December, Eckhardt and Gramenos still weren’t allowed to take out new building permits which didn’t relate to fixing work on existing rehabs.