What size do the footings of the porch need to be (porch rests on soil, not sand or gravel)?

However as a family takes foot hold and more water and paper start being used that's when the problem surfaces.

I think that's about $13 a square foot.

I've at least got a pre-approval letter from a mortgage broker so I'll use that to at least get my foot in the door, then hopefully when I have a good deal under contract I can try to use the deal as a tool to get investors/OPM.

So the intent would be to have a room for a small child.

I typically will first take a 30,000 foot view and search zillow or realtor.com for recently sold listings that are similar to my property.

@Yogev Finegoz you may want to consider new construction, I have a builder I work with that construction cost are around 70ish a sq foot.

@Jason Graves anytime a parent shows a child a skill on any level is giving them one more tool to feed themselves in the future.

"I fairly, and in good faith offered to pay 2 months rent (over 50K) to a landlord for a place I was never going to step foot in due to a global pandemic that took a severe toll upon the residents of NYC, gave timely notice to attempt to try and re-rent, while getting TJ and now living in Florida for rehab, and the landlord tries to extort me for 250K while leaking this story to the media, and I'm the bad guy?

While it is expensive to do, you probably will be digging down to the footing anyways to increase ceiling height and running a new underground sewer while you're at it.