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22 September 2021 | 1 reply
City said oh h*** no and the city is the one that issues the building permits.
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23 September 2021 | 11 replies
As a side note, I loved Scott's book and would definitely recommend it to college students, young professionals, and anyone else looking to achieve early financial freedom.
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24 September 2021 | 12 replies
Permits are much easier when you take out and replace.
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1 October 2021 | 11 replies
, will pulling a building permit make it happen, is it just an illegal unit (???)
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24 September 2021 | 6 replies
A book I recommend/give to folks as they graduate college has been Set For Life by Scott Trench.
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23 September 2021 | 4 replies
So basically, if I pull permits to rehab it, then I will have to put retail on the first floor to adhere to the new zoning map?
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23 October 2021 | 7 replies
Is anyone else struggling with the time the city of Houston is taking to process permits?
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4 October 2021 | 31 replies
Now with that being said, we have run into a lot of parties in certain parts of cities with colleges or younger populations.
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7 October 2021 | 28 replies
Because of building codes that we didn't know about, we were un-able to get permitting to build a new garage or carport.
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7 October 2021 | 2 replies
Is mezannine debt a common way of funding all of the development costs (Entitlement,Design, Permitting, etc.) before raising capital for the construction?