I dodged a bullet - the condo I missed got hit with a special assessment of $10,000 for replacement of the stairs in the building, about half of the owners could not pay that and got foreclosed, and the listing price on those units 9 years later is in the $25,000 - $30,000 range.

It is zoned as a 3 unit and from talking to the city inspector moving the staircase and adding stairs to the back balcony will solve our problems if we want to keep it as a separate unit.  

Just make sure that they don't use any sort of silicone,  roofer's cement, or similar sticky stuff to make the repair.

That's all the information we have been given.Taking into account typical room sizes (offices, toilets), stair space etc, could anyone give me some ideas on a general layout - how many rooms?

., upstairs and down stairs..

Why not just jack hammer the cement and use it to fill the pool, then haul in top soil to cover over the cement?

Then when you trowl down your new layer the cement will adhere to the wire mesh (and create a miniture rebar reinforcement), and beacuse the mesh is fastened to the original floor you should get a good bond.

She said no I came down the stairs one night because there was some knocking in the kitchen and there in the kitchen was an old lady and a boy.

One of the best ROI deals I ever did was add a 1/2 bath in the house that had a 8' X 10' laundry room accessible through the master bath.The only thing I did besides paint the existing bath white was add the following;Toilet- $5.00-yard salePedastal sink $20.00-discontinued at HDMirror $FREE (my favorite price) from the RealtorTowel bars etc $3.50-yard saleVarious PVC pipe, a toilet flange and PVC cement $25.00 or so, I already had a lot of it and there was some in the shed at the house when I bought.Permits N/A Satisfaction of earning $17,500 for a few day's work PRICELESSall cash

In our family, my daughter had a mother heaving large furniture on stairs and crushed something hitting her up months later for meds.