Permitting can be a big deal for a number of reasons. First at some point in the future you will have to sell the house and when things on paper don't match things in reality, it gets messy. Second, when selling such items, you have to disclose and attest to all manner of information because people will be loaning other people lots of money to buy said house.
It might be as simple as noting there is non-permitted work in the description of the house but then again, ask yourself if you were laying everything down on the biggest asset most people have, are you going to trust the work of lay persons performed goodness knows when under who knows what circumstances.
I'm not saying those negative insinuations would apply to you personally, just that future buyers might apply them toward you and your property when pondering a purchase in the future.
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