Hello all, I am a long time lurker of the BP forums, but first time poster.  I tried looking around for information on my question, but haven't been able to find a suitable answer.  I have faith that the BP community ...

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I've been looking for potential house hacking properties on Oahu and have found several on the MLS that come with 4 separate units. It all cases 3 of the 4 units have a reduced kitchen meaning that either th...

Anyone from San Antonio have experience with pulling permits vs not pulling them?  Here's my situation... I'm currently flipping a house built in the 1930s.  Pulling permits means I would have to bring electrical up t...

New to foreclosures. I've been researching a property for an upcoming foreclosure sale and found that it has several open permits and a zoning violation where some unpermitted work was done. I'm trying to ballpark the...

I just acquired a house for cash in the city of Cleveland. I've owned it for about 30 days and today I got a hang tag on the door saying the plumbing inspector was here to inspect the water heater. I called the city a...

What's the permit process like for converting a 2 bedroom into a 3 bedroom? How long does it take and how expensive is the process?I've got this 2 bedroom town home with 2.5 baths with this loft space that's kind of u...

I have a hud property under contract. I tried to get the utilities on and the permit office says the water needs to be on before they came out. I spoke to my realtor about turning on the water and she said Hud will no...

Went to the building dept in my town today, I have some electrical work that needs to be completed in order to get a clean certificate of occupancy, anyway they said that i needed a licensed electrician to do all of ...

The City of Lansing is making me pull a Permit on an addition that's was put on my rental property 15 years before I owned it.  Contractor won't touch it and city won't let anyone live in it until it's done. Read belo...

OK, Im going to run through a project here in its painful entirety - start to finish. I will figure out if I can post here efficiently so it is easy to follow along, text, images etc.  I have all the material on my we...