{"id":55889,"date":"2011-05-10T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=55889"},"modified":"2011-05-10T11:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:53:49","slug":"any-sense-of-ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/05\/any-sense-of-ba\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Cost for 2-Fam Gut Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently looking at 2-family for sale and wondering what rough cost would be gut and convert it to a 3-family.<br \/>\nCouple points<br \/>&#8211; Zoning provides for 3 family (without changing structure of house, above ground basement conversion possible and FAR provides)<br \/>&#8211; House is 1930 brick, bones look good but inside would have to be gutted. Would not look to change too much of structure only open up the floorplan a bit as existing structure provides.<br \/>&#8211; Dont expect will put very expensive finishes, but not builder grade either (something middle of the road)<\/p><p>I dont want to wind up overimproving for the neighborhood and wnat to leave enough room in my offer for contingencies.<\/p>\n<p>Any sense on how i can get started to ballpark this? What should be on my checklist of big items to consider?<\/p>\n <span class=\"plp-active-page\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/span> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/05\/any-sense-of-ba\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently looking at 2-family for sale and wondering what rough cost would be gut and convert it to a 3-family. Couple points &#8211; Zoning provides for 3 family (without changing structure of house, above ground basement conversion possible and FAR provides) &#8211; House is 1930 brick, bones look good but inside would have to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-55889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renovation"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/05\/any-sense-of-ba\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Ballpark Cost for 2-Fam Gut Job?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/05\/any-sense-of-ba\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/05\/any-sense-of-ba\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Renovation","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ajm0824"}],"creator":["ajm0824"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2011-05-10T11:50:10Z","datePublished":"2011-05-10T11:50:10Z","dateModified":"2011-05-10T11:53:49Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Ballpark Cost for 2-Fam Gut Job?\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/any-sense-of-ba\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/any-sense-of-ba\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Renovation\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"ajm0824\"}],\"creator\":[\"ajm0824\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Forum Archive\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-05-10T11:50:10Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-10T11:50:10Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-05-10T11:53:49Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/brownstoner.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","print_hed":"","photo_gallery":[],"print_subhed":"","print_slug":"","syndication_thumb":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55889"},{"taxonomy":"districts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/districts?post=55889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}