With the planning and building dept's heads deep up their rectums plan for 4 years to get your permit.

If you don't plan to live in some part of the property at least a portion of the time, you have to get a non-owner occupied STR permit instead of an owner-occupied one. 

Feel free to PM me or answer on here- Do you own the land already- permitted- Estimated land value- scope of work - Location (city/state) - How much are you looking for? 

There are no permits on the property so likely no previous testing or remediation.

Ideally, he/she can also help with the permit process. 

Verify if the structure was ever permitted by asking the Building Dept., which is usually right next to the Planning Dept.A shop like that would typically be allowed in a residential zone, but only as an incidental accessory use, not to be rented or used for business purposes.

@Vincenz DeCastro @Omar Khan One of the other issues in Austin is that the permitting here is way behind.

Because all he has to do is go down to the city and ask for a copy of the construction documents that were submitted for permit.

I would not say that you will ALWAYS get a value increase with the change.Second, the type of renovations you want will require you to pull an ALT-1 Permit: Permit's in NYCHowever, Jillian can confirm that.It is possible that a full tax re-assessment of your building will trigger paying higher taxes, which will blunt your calculated cash flow.If you were not changing the Certificate of Occupancy, I would not have mentioned a tax re-assessment.Those are a few things to think about and make sure you don't wind up spending a lot of money to make a change in the CofO only to wind up having the same Property Value AND having your potential income source blunted by increased property tax.

What it is now is acquiring the land for $25M plus $2M if further site work to get building permit and ready for construction for Phase 1.