Jeremy Trentelman’s cardboard fort for his kids came with windows, trap doors and a green slide. Then the city of Ogden, Utah, gave him 15 days to take it down.

Jeremy Trentleman had a pile of cardboard boxes left from work, and when you have two toddlers at home that can mean only one thing: he was building a fort.

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With the help of their kids Max, 3, and Story, 2, Trentelman and his wife, Dee, cut and taped the cardboard to build two towers, trap doors, tunnels, and a slide.

They built the whole thing last week with the help of their friend, Byron Owens, and his two kids Satoria and Oliver in Ogden, Utah.

His friend's daughter also wrote a sign on the door of the fort reading, "Everyone can come in."

"We all had a blast putting it together and we've had tons of fun with it since," Trentelman told BuzzFeed News.

So when he came home to find a letter from the city telling him his cardboard fort violated city code, he was dumbounded.

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Trentelman has few choices.

He can pay $25 to dispute the citation, or pay the $125 fee if the fort doesn't come down within 15 days.

That means, Trentelman said, he's got 14 days to milk the fort for all its worth.

According to the letter, the fort violated the city's code prohibiting, "waste materials or junk on premises."

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