The block walls would almost certainly be load bearing, so you'd need an engineer and contractor to make a plan to carry the load with beams or posts.

Please read the Capitalisation without Capital book, it is elaborating these points2) Most countries in the world, do not have enough technical staff(IT staff, programmers and engineers), and welcome these engineers to their country.

He reversed engineered it by saying that 20% of your time should produce 80% of your results.

Got a call from an engineer from India, kind of hard to understand with his accent. 

I will be hiring an engineer to design it (getting their assessment on some additional foundation work as well).

While we had an engineer in to stamp drawings, we did not do a full inspection of the basement, and there was some damage down there that came up in inspection when we went to sell. 

The listing agent seems to think that it’s no big deal, they just press a button and change it once you ask but I know after my phone calls to the zoning board that I need to hire a lawyer and an engineer hopefully not an architect as well to prepare the plans/ blueprints and anything else they require.

I use to do tech support (consumer feedback) and moved onto engineering tech support where people in our own company had to leave "Feedback".

@Brad PiperGet it listed on the MLS and make sure it syndicates out to all of the major search engines like zillow, realtor.com, etc.

I would recommend getting an engineering company to come out an assess the damage.