If you don't have a lot of experience and you don't have deep relationships with investors, you'll have to tilt the waterfall further in the investor's favor in order to attract capital.

I realize that "hobby" effort yields "hobby" results and "full tilt balls to the walls effort" like you put in yields results that you would expect.  

While I have been interested in real estate for a while about six months ago I made a decision to go full tilt into the process.

When I referred to minor things yes, I included the insulation and some burnt lightbulbs, windows that don't open, a half working oven and dishwasher, and a tree growing next to the house tilting the condenser to the side and too close to the foundation (inspector and plumber said it will have to be removed to not mess up with piping under the house).

In this instance you may have to own the property as uneven percentages and then set up a separate management entity where the membership is tilted your way so balance things out.

However, it seems to be built with less solid material than the main house and has very obvious tilt (two inches).

So here's what I think:You look like you've run full tilt off a disastrous cliff already.I'm sorry.

Repairing something that's broken, depending on what it is, can be something they might be more likely to tell you you don't need a permit for.For example, instead of saying "I'm going to take down several walls and put new ones up" you could say, "I'm going to repair several sections of crumbling plaster by replacing the plaster with drywall, and putting in some insulation in the process" - if that's a fair description of course.It's a minor difference in framing, and might not matter, but where there's ambiguity I usually like to try to tilt things in my favor where possible 😀For tracking down the building department you could Google it or look on ripropinfo.com which is my usual launching-off point for researching properties - it has a column for the city/town website which can be helpful because sometimes towns change their sites from .us to .gov to .com or whatever (more often than you'd expect actually).

I used to be super active in a poker forum (Full Tilt) before “Black Friday” (if you don’t know what that is and wanna learn more DM me lol)Cheers!

So they can visit relatives or work at a job.If it fills up, build more concrete tilt up row houses.