Should I recommend a lawyer to my client to assist with the financials and license / permits or is that not necessary?

Will you need to pull any permits which could lengthen your rehab projects?  

We reconfigured the landscaping so the house had a private entrance and yard, and then added a kitchen and refreshed the interior, and had it permitted as a legal ADU.

Hey everyone, hoping to buy my first property within the next couple years and have built out some analytics using building permit data to help inform my decision.

Is there any way to file a change of use permit of some sort that would make this business model work? 

You may have to go creative rather than conventional, but depending on where it is and what you are doing, you may be looking at anywhere between 100K-300K in soft costs (permitting, design, architecture, utility hook ups, etc.) and a construction budget of probably 1 Mil to whatever, once again depending on what you are doing and where. 

Include water risers, heater,  laundry,  hose hydrant,  permit costs,  etc.

We also learned that the house had failed or not received many of Baltimore city’s permits and inspections.

Is so - what are the chances to get permits to build and what would you estimate the cost to actually get the land ready to build (water delineation, mitigation etc..)?

our area has put restrictions in place that limit what properties qualify and for those that do qualify only 300 STR permits will be issued.