Another thing you could do is see what the process would be to get it legalized by talking to the building department of your city without giving them the address and see if it would be easy/make sense.

We ran into many challenges with the city and local/state water departments.

We ran into many challenges with the city and local/state water departments.

Make sure you use the city building and zoning department as a check and balance with your contractors.

Confirm with your local building department, but typically a legal bedroom requires certain ceiling height, egress window and closet space.  

Also if anybody happens to work with the city of Long Beach’s planning department I would love to connect to find out what I can do to speed things along.Thanks in advance

I would engage the responsible jurisdiction building department on this.

CITY BUILDING RECORDS: The second place to identify properties that may be in distress is municipal building record department; many municipalities have digitized their records, meaning that you can search for properties that have building code violations.

Want to a market that fits the following criteria=- Must have a handful of colleges/universities with creative arts departments, within two hours drive. 

@Scott Mac the police department will compensate the owner or hire a contractor to repair.