We did a good quality job in Baltimore City. 

The city building official said the city inspects for code compliance but not bad design -- hardly reassuring in light of the municipal fees that drive up home costs everywhere.

@Kathy HacmacI don't allow any sort of painting.I've put together my apartments so that all the walls will need is a quick washdown with TSP, hole and crack repair, some touch-up primer (maybe), and another coat of colormatched Glidden Premium to come back to where they were before I rented out the place.The brick duplex that I'm currently renovating was custom-built in 1923 for an heiress of a prominent local family in the historic borough of Munhall, PA, just outside the city limits of Pittsburgh.

Make sure you either talk to someone familiar with the laws in your state/city, or read the landlord tenant laws yourself so you don’t mess it up.

Largest cities to expand sideways or vertically?

PM Title in Grove City/UA/Dublin...they're amazing. 

City of Atlanta have said we'll need a variance (bummer)Is anyone willing to give examples of hardships that they've been able to use to give justification that allowed you to get your variance application approved..?

I am originally from Kansas City and I just moved back about a year ago. 

If you’re on FB check out the Brew City REI group.

I live in South City and work in Kirkwood.