Candidly, if you need to ask this question you need to be seeking real-world help in the form of a certified engineer or competent contractor.The resources you're looking for start in the international residential code book.

Reading this - it's likely just interest, taxes, and mortgage insurance premiumshttps://www.irs.gov/publications/p530/ar02.html

Might be something to consider.http://wichita.craigslist.org/reo/5384191933.html

Sometimes a new agent in the business will be more open to your proposal.This is what, as an investors, I'd want my Fiduciary Buyer's Agent to do for me:To supply me with expired listings on a daily basis in certain zip codes To assist in locating the owners of those propertiesOr, to make an offer through the expired listing agentTo present contracts and to open negotiations on leads received To search for FSBO's in a prescribed area, to notify me and to make offers on those propertiesTo keep me informed of any new laws, regulations or news about the area I want to invest in.To run ads in local newspapers and internet sites;   "Wanted, all real estate, houses and commercial properties in the following zip codes 21234, 21236, 21214 and 21304.

(All electrical up to code...)

Bryan - do you think the city's revision of the land development code (CodeNEXT) is going to affect the permit/inventory constraint?

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I can't convert it back( city code).

Contact your local wholesalers, find other investors who might want to move some inventory, Call FRBO, recent evictions, code enforcement violators... do what it takes! 

On it it states that "Assessee name and address are not available online per CA gov code".