We did a lot of new things for us in this one, like adding a beam to open the kitchen wall, shifting around the existing bathroom and completely adding a master bath and closets upstairs.Our financial partner on this one would rather us not share the investment numbers, but it sold for the full asking price of $250,000 with multiple offers in the first week on the market. 

@Dustin Beam

Once you understand what you want to do you can laser focus only on that and forgot trying a little of this and that and seeing what sticks.

My guess is that there may be some "additional" negative consequences promised, as eviction itself is not scary to these types.Read the quote from Judge Roy Beam again.  

Got an architect who handles the legalizing process, and the answer I got was I can do it, since others have done it, but the breezeway that connects the house to garage is also enclosed, thus living space, does not have the proper footings, and the garage windows are not large enough to provide a second egress, and the beams that holds up the garage roof is not the required 2x6 beams.

Depending on where you are from, you may have a slab foundation or you may have a stem wall on the perimeter for the house with beams and posts running throughout the center holding up the house (creating a crawl space). 

Most of the homes are pier and beam.

He had just bought it (for cash) and the roof had a cracked ridge beam as well as unit 2 (the empty one needed a lot of refreshing.Over several weeks as he would do things I would show up and he would let me watch him work.

You want to focus like a laser on the kinds of deals you want to do, and you should be communicating this to brokers and other people with access to these deals.  

I wanted some advice on the following deal:List Price:  $56,000DOM:  114 with no price reductionRepairs needed:  roof and pier and beam foundation leveling (estimated 15k)Expenses:  Insurance $769 Taxes $1571One side of duplex rented at $600 (long term section 8) and the other side it vacant.