I had a quote come in for 2,800 square feet of wall.

I need 3 new 10 foot long, one wall kitchens. 4 bathrooms, and a bunch of drywall work and flooring.

The property will need to some rehab (roof, dry wall repair, windows, paint, flooring, etc.). 

You can make small upgrades (painting walls, staining banisters, replacing carpet, etc.) yourself and after a year rent out the whole place for $1300 or attempt to continue to rent by the room for higher cashflow and buy another one with the same process.

So, the city sees the trash bin and they catch him remodeling the entire building without permits.Now, that walls are opened in the building this fool finds out that the entire 25 units needs new water piping and new drain and sewer pipes underneath the entire building.

In addition to the toilets you can look for water damage on the walls, floors, ceilings, etc. in case there is a broken/leaking pipe somewhere.  

Unit was all original from 1986 and needed updating on interior elements.Complete Rehab: floors, walls, ceilings.In progress Rehab: Kitchen, Master Bath.Planned Rehab: Guest bath.What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Upon my visit, I know the house needs wall repainting, replacing bathroom tiles, installing 3 doors, and renewing kitchen sinks.I am very inexperienced when it comes to these fixes and def want to avoid all of that work myself. 1.

Thank you for sharing how you got into this.My sense of this 1) steep learning curve 2) not easy 3) there is actual work involved :-) 3) it's like sales - you have to reach out to a lot of people and get a lot a lot of rejections 4) if you keep beating your head against the wall eventually you will get a break and things will come together 5) continuous education and outreach is important.But really I have no idea as this notion came across my path literally 48 hours ago. 

If nobody pulled permit, the job was never inspected so there's no way to know what is really going on behind the walls.