In lake county Indiana. I rehabbed a home and was caught without building permit I went through the process of getting a permit but my original plan needed a variance after the process and being denied the variance at...

Hello, BP community!! Recently,  I acquired a 2 families property ( with finished basement) ;  I would like to convert it to legal 3 families property.    Any BP members can give us advice and share experience in conv...

Has anyone had an issue where there is a discrepancy between the building dept and tax dept in town? 1 is saying my house is 3 units and then other is saying 2 units. Building department has no documentation to back t...

I have a building permit on my SFR that was issued 9/22/2016 and it's supposed to remain active for a year. We should be wrapping up our project in a few weeks, hopefully by the end of this month or beginning of next ...

Hello,Looking to become an investor in the Scranton, PA area.  I live locally.My initial plan would be buy/hold duplexes and eventually larger multi-unit properties in the suburbs around Scranton, such as Dunmore, Dic...

You have closed on your hard money loan and now it is time to get your rehab going......I created a list to save you some time:  Please use the following building permit checklist if you are planning a rehab in City o...

Hello everybody! We’ve been in real estate for a little over a year now. We successfully flip our first house in 2017. We also have a 2 family rental. We’ve learned a lot this past year so I’d like to make myself avai...

Suppose you want to buy a few hundred acres, and then split them up into individual parcels and build a house on each one. How do you know that the local Zoning Department will allow you to change the zoning? (which I...

Hi everyone!  My name is Matt Dubois, and I'm a Captain in the Baltimore City Fire Department.  I live in York, PA.  It's not a bad commute, maybe about 50 mins.  I moved up to York from Baltimore County (Reisterstown...

Hi all! I'm in the marketing department of a real estate investment company (turnkey properties), so my forte is more copywriting, social media campaigns, and marketing collateral design. But recently the president...