This property has no Usage and Occupancy Permit.

It is difficult to get properties rezoned for larger usage.  

ways to boot your credit will be increasing your limits on your card, decrease your usage under 30percent, great ways to connect with other REI is to go to meet up in your local area also read Robert G Allen.

The only other downsides I have are the $8000 I owe on my cards (with a 25% usage of credit).

Service and repair costs caused by tenant placing inappropriate items in drain are tenant's responsibility.But, sewer problems are often just something you as the landlord have to deal with. 

first, with a 570 credit score, you are not gonna get a loan on the house anyway. some banks will look at the never missed a payment issue and evaluate your score very differently, but with most banks these days, thats rare. here is what you can do. first, lower the price on the house. figure out a bare minimum you can take for it and adjust that price accordingly. people are not only looking for a nice house right now, but a good deal as well. second, call all of those credit card companies and ask for a credit limit increase. yes, i said and increase. here is the reason. maxed credit cards kill your credit score. creditors like to see you using your avalible credit but not 100% of it. they like to see between 30 and 50%. so, increasing your credit line limit on each card will lower your used credit vs your avalible credit and thus, increase your credit score. i.e. 100% of $10,000 is 100% of $10,000. but, $10,000 is only 50% of $20,000. you still will owe the same amount, but you will be using a lesser amount of your avalible credit. sounds stupid, yes, but credit usage is a major factor in determining your credit score. then, when you have your score back up to a decent level, go get a loan on that house if it has not sold yet. here is the reason.

So apparently the water meter in a property I purchased was frozen and wasn't measuring usage.

The house has a very small yard, which will not have shared usage due to outdoor projects we're working on this fall, and the fact that we have a very small puppy who has her own space in the yard (I don't want young children playing with her unsupervised and potentially being rough with her, or accidentally letting her out of her space).

You need a plumber to scope the lines as apart of due diligence even if sewer is cast iron all the way to the street.Usually they will charge xx number of dollars per toilet per unit.Galvanized rusts from the inside out so even if you replace all plumbing in the building you can have low water pressure from the galvanized main and also leakage into the ground running up the water bills.Engineer for the city water department should tell you for the area what the average usage of water is per number of tenants that typically occupy that square footage of space.

This weekend, I'm participating in a FinTech hackathon at ATDC (startup incubator at Georgia Tech) [http://atdc.org/atdc-news/advanced-technology-deve...The idea is a group of software developers work through the week...