I am a Verifiable accredited investor/Cash buyer looking for distressed/discounted multi-family (2-4 primarily but will consider commercial 5 units +) properties for mid to long term buy & hold in & near Union County, NJ (Linden, Rahway, Elizabeth, Roselle Park, Roselle) Middlesex County (Woodbridge, Avenel, Carteret, Colonia.)Also I'm looking for a Manhattan studio/1 bed condo/condop/coop-investor friendly unit that permits immediate & unlimited sublets & that can cashflow.

Using a large electric, plumbing and heating company for pulling permits on that phase and local underemployed workers to complete demolition clean up, framing , drywall and paint for the rest.

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

@Jody Michelson We are in for permits right now on the house we are doing on Calle Redondel.

From taxes, permit requirements, rental registration and fines if you fail to do all of that correctly.

You'll need permits, inspections before starting the bull dozer and you're probably going to have to hire guys in white plastic suits that can rob you based on a license.Same with rehabbing it, I'm not familiar with Jeff City's building permits office but I can assume the attitude would be very similar here, they don't want it there with lipstick, they probably want it gone in that condition.Look to the value of the lot less debris removal costs, that's probably what it's worth and you can get stuck with a lot for years, so you might as well build on it.

I have found some City offices difficult to work with, permitting especially...but, I bet if I was a contractor that pulled permits frequently, it wouldn't be as large of a hassle.

Would I require permits and do I call the county?

One of the factors that I looked at was the building permits issued in 2017 for each MSA.

Hi Bigger Pockets Community: I recently bought a property under a contract for deed.The property needs some work and I am needing pull a building permit.When I went to get a permit to start rehab, the city employee told me since this is a contract for deed and does not match the county database, I will have to have the person I am purchasing the property from pull the permit.This makes no sense to me and has anyone else ran into this problem before?