All Forum Posts by: Paul Pukurdpol

Hello!

 We just closed on a 1900s house with similar foundation issues. We brought a structural engineer out to give us numbers on what kind of repair risk we were taking on which cost about $400 to get him out there. A report would have been $225 but we ultimately did not need the formal report. Using his assessment we were able ascertain that the cost to even start addressing the foundation issues would be 10-20k in our case, and to fully replace the affected portion of the foundation and wall would be up to 100k. Using his estimated we were able to renegotiate the price down by $28k to account for the need for future repairs.

That said, ANY 100 year old foundation is going to have issues, and even if it looks bad it may have settled (I mean it did last a century). No idea if our situation would shed light onto yours, but if you need contact info for a structural engineer I have two names I can share, DM me if needed. 

Thanks for the replies all! I put an offer in on the property but the seller was stuck in April 2022 anyways, so I'm moving on to options that are already zoned. Thanks for the feedback!

Sunnyside!

Hello all!

I'm a first time house hacker and I'm looking at putting in an offer on a 5 bedroom house that I plan to AirBnB the basement portion of while I build a detached garage and ADU in the backyard in 2023. The property meets 90% of my criteria except that it is currently zoned U-SU-C and I would have to apply to have it re-zoned to U-SU-C1. Has anyone been through this process before? Any insights on timing, fees, legal, likelihood of failure to be approved would be greatly appreciated!

Hopefully if it's feasible to re-zone concurrently while having the building plans generated/finding contractors, with a high likelihood of being approved in about a 6-8 month time frame...

Thanks in advance!

Great event, thanks for hosing Dan