Having to dig up the parking lot and redo the line to the street and repave can be many tens of thousands of dollars depending on the length of the run involved and how deep the lines are.Make sure you have the full financial numbers from the seller and they verify before spending thousands on inspections to only find out sellers numbers are wrong and they will not adjust the price etc.Hopefully in your purchase and sale contract you had language such as due diligence period does not start until ALL of the items listed are received by the buyer.

I'm not sure if there are crimes involved with doing this or if its to avoid being sued but I've always been told not to do it. 

If you go down into Point Breeze or Brewerytown, keep your eyes open for construction.

I am new to the forum and looking to get involved. 

Most expensive route of course as you are paying them by the hour, but I learned a great deal and am now self sufficient and they've been tremendously helpful in giving me birds eye view of what I need to fix and focus on next. 

They never have to deal with entitled high-maintenance tenants who've only ever lived with mom and dad; tracking down late rent from the same person over and over; crossing town for showings only for the person to flake; going through the work of calling all references for multiple co-tenants only for the accepted applicants to back out 30 minutes before your holding deposit meeting--after you've crossed town to meet them and gone to Kinko's to print all the documents; tenants who give you stink eye while you're in their apartment to fix a light switch (only 2 hours after they called to report needing a repair even though you live across town), etc. etc. etc.  

This can often lead to more flexibility and better returns, especially if financing is involved in real estate transactions.

There are no agents involved so no commissions paid out.

I am highly highly intrigued on getting involved with bigger pockets and in the real estate community.

You could attempt the BRRRRRRRRR route but odds are you don’t want to take your eye off of your PhD job :)