I went to the construction office (his dad is the construction official :( ) and they are telling me that they wont sign it and its against the law to demo sprinklers.

From what I heard, it is more involved and going from a duplex to a triplex is what stops most owners from making that transition officially. 

Now that I've updated the house, do I need to alert any of the city officials so the property value can be reflective of the new addition? 

Short term rentals are officially legal, whether the owner is on-site or off-site.

The Bigger Pockets conference should be announced in the next couple of months as well, and I would highly recommend going to that.

@Alla Minchenkov as many people stated, you should officially withdraw your offer based on your inspection contingency.

We don't have any official lease agreement.

One of the great things about being apart of the Columbus Urban Land Institute is that I get to see the city officials working with developers to bring new opportunities to the city.Check out this article about Franklinton (an area in Columbus).

Wholesaling is traditionally defined by the investor community as "the assignment of a contract" but some people define it as buying a property and reselling without doing any work at all or very little which is also known in the investor community as “wholetaling” which is simply retail real estate.There is no dictionary, official or legal definition for flipping, rehabbing, wholesaling or wholetaling.

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