From the pool of inquiries, there would have been much more applicants except I let people know that there were already too many applicants AND that they MUST meet my criteria of over 700 Credit Score, 45 times monthly rent AND have a healthy savings account to weather the lockdown.I chose the best applicant who made $200k per year and had $200k in savings as well as over 700 FICO.Apts like mine in buildings like mine are incredibly desireable now.Basically, there's a huge problem with skyrises and Pandemics.People are afraid that if they get into an elevator that they could be trapped in a small space with someone that has the virus, which will then transmit it to them.Also, the management for the skyrise buildings are not permitting IN PERSON showings AND many are not allowing moving in or out of the building because of the risk of increasing the transmission to vulnerable tenants within their buildings.That narrows down the amount of available apts.Buildings like mine, non-Elevator walk up buildings which are low density and separate Garden Apts, are now the most desireable buildings to own in a Pandemic in NYC, as I am seeing anedotally.However, this is only true if you are in the right kind of City, where most of the buildings will be very large skyrise elevator buildings where there are huge amount of renters.Adding to the attractiveness of low density buildings is the fact that NYC is the EPICENTER of the COVID-19 pandemic.Yes, this is one single datapoint.

In my State, an owner-OCCUPIED person can pull their own permit and do their own work. 

building permits perhaps and variances and such, depending on what you'll be doing to the property - but you will not need a license per se.any person or entity that buys real estate - owns it and can do whatever they want with it - (as long as any deed restrictions are followed if any and as long as no code violations result).

Apparently, single family building permits are down 60% from last year in California, but multifamily building permits are up 36%.

Use a postal permit, and print a delivery point bar-code when you are addressing.

Just curious, are inspector going to inquirer about permits?

I run credit reports and one of the terms with the credit company is that I am not permitted to give copies of the reports or any information about the reports to the applicant.If they are rejected, I am required to give them a letter that allows them to get a free copy of their credit report.As far as I know, California is the only state that requires that a copy of the credit report be given to the applicant if the applicant paid for it.I'm going to guess, that since the credit company keeps a record of every place that a person applies for credit, They don't want the consumer to walk around witha copy so that their loan applications don't show up on their credit report.

If you prohibit private investors from investing in hedge funds which on average use 1.5-2 times leverage but permit the same investors to invest in banks which use 25 times leverage and which are for all intents and purposes bankrupt, then you either don't understand the world of finance or you don't want to understand.

I know I need a permit to demolish the house and I'm guessing the demolition will cost $15k but I have no idea what else I need to consider.  

Maybe we can learn together.Our place is a two-unit property with a vacation rental permit, so we are holding.