sounds like he was trying to do things the right way,the easy way would have been to just do things without drawing attention,shut the water off and do not tell anybody,the house was abandoned so it probably would have been a long time before they would have dealt with it.
Do not worry about the permits anybody asks you are just painting inside.
One has to know going into it they will be dealing with a cluster phuck so the less the city knows the better off you are.
Most city’s look the other way when you are doing things like that and they do not know what is going on inside of the house.
You are not going to change them,so you have to figure out how to adapt and exploit their deficiencies in order to make it work.
If you look at all the housing announcements it is currently all about low income housing or below market rates,if he is working as an independent flipping houses for profit they are going to view that as somebody greedy and trying to exploit the city for profit.
If he is buying them,fixing them up in order to provide affordable housing then he will be a hero,you would not be able to appear to be actually doing it for profit.
Unless he is doing it in upper scale or a trendy neighborhood,it is pointless,he is better off hooking up with somebody in the city under the guise of making it appear as though you are investing and working at a loss for the benefit for others,they will probably cut him a check then,it’s not really an inept city,it’s the optics.That’s why people are calling him a slum lord,it’s not good optics to expect a return on investment.
I think if I was going to flip houses it would be in places like EEV or more established neighborhoods.
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