I will have people that expect to rent my nicely renovated 4/3 3000sf with private pool, fenced yard on a lake for $100/night because they saw some other dump a couple blocks down for that price.

Our goal is to help tackle this crisis by rehabilitating one unit/block at a time.

If you don’t have the parcel’s block & lot #, you can use the street name & # to pull up public record docs including deeds, liens, violations, etc.

I am looking at buying units in the downtown area. on the 200th block of 6th street.

Pick a 10 block neighborhood.  

If it is block construction the engineers will make you beef up the slab and add piles to support the new weight of the second floor.

The smart play would be to build a two story wood frame structure on top of piers or concrete block in most cases. 35 feet is a pretty typical height limit in most neighborhoods, so depending on elevation you SHOULD be able to build two stories on top of the elevated foundation.

have seen this play with eastern Block women . 

If you want a city, Philly can be done if you know where the blocks break.

Are you doing butcher block, quartzite or masonite for counter tops?