Anyone w/ experience dealing with rehabbing a condemned property in Allegheny County?

[Tia Ricketts]

One year ago I unknowingly purchased a condemned property at the Allegheny county sheriff sale (yes, rookie mistake of an out of state investor buying site unseen).

I have since then rehabbed a different property in the same area and using the BRRR strategy I now have the funds to rehab this condemned 2 family house.

The town has been working with me by removing the house from the list to be demolished earlier this year however I need to start the process of getting bids from contractors etc and I am concerned about how much more challenging the process will be since the town’s inspectors will likely be heavily overseeing the rehab.

Has anyone here had to deal with this kind of situation where you completed a rehab with the town’s inspectors’ direct involvement? did they make the process any more difficult than it should have been?
I wouldn’t wish this situation on anyone but if someone has some knowledge/experience of what to expect that would be great!